Economic growth and environment

The rapporteur called on the Commission to define a strategy to allow a sustainable economic structure to be implemented no later than 2020. He regretted that the Council had withdrawn its plan for a CO₂ tax and called on the Commission to reconsider the possibility of introducing such a tax. Commissioner BJERREGAARD did not want to give an opinion on this matter; however, she hoped that the Member States would agree to establish a CO₂ tax as soon as possible.