The European Commission is certain to win the lawsuit opened by Romania in the European Court of Justice, regarding the polluting emmissions quota. EC is unable to understand the position Romania ssumed, since Romania was the one to provide the data that led to the quota allocation. Jos Delbeke, the man who dealt with the European Emmissions Trading Scheme, declared in an exclusive interview for Hotnews.ro taht the EC has not made any mistakes in calculating the allocation quota.
Hotnews.ro: Romania sued the European Commission, unhappy with the CO2 quota allocated for 2008 - 2012. Romnia was favored by the new calculation methid, as it happened with all countries with a low GNP. What may happen after 2013?
Jos Delbeke: In this allocation process we make an analysis of every member state, which is very standard , very similar for all of them. Of course, all member states are different, because their energy mix is different, their economic developement is different. But we followed the same methodology for Romania as we did for the other member states. That's why we are not looking forward to a court case, because it's going to create a lot of work to all of us. Still, if you have to have this court case, then we have to go through the emotions. Now, the commission has made clear to other member state who are also complaining about the allocation that we cannot have over-allocation on the market because, if we have over-allocation, then we will have a price for allowance going to zero, and that would not be good. Now what we do see is that Romania has not only being treated fairly, but we also think that we incorporated in the assesement the high economic growth that romania's going to have in the coming years. I dont' understand why there is a problem, and the commission is going to argue that everybopdy gets less allowanced than it is needed i
