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With this directive, the rate of tax on a given product will combine the tax linked to CO
emissions and that based on energy content. Beyond that, the Member States will be free to set their own rates of taxation, above the threshold levels imposed by the EU, and to work out their own taxation structure, reproducing the ratio between the minimum rates of taxation for the various energy sources. This voluntarist narrowing of European policy on climate and environmental issues, to the detriment of energy and industrial issues, will have an extremely negative impact on consumers. At a time when the prices of the various final energy carriers have been continuously increasing and few renewable energy sources have been introduced, it is worrying that, on the basis of climate concerns, the introduction of an energy taxation framework that will not fail to penalise consumers in general, as well as the countries with less competitive economies, which currently already have serious competitiveness problems due to production-input costs relating to their specific situations, is being proposed. Despite the positive reasons mentioned by the rapporteur, the final product of the report remains negative for the type of European development that would be desirable."@en1
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