{"id":125005,"date":"2024-01-31T07:45:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T05:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/commission-opens-in-depth-state-aid-investigation-into-swedish-tax-exemption-schemes-for-non-food-biogas-and-bio-propane\/"},"modified":"2024-01-31T07:45:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T05:45:19","slug":"commission-opens-in-depth-state-aid-investigation-into-swedish-tax-exemption-schemes-for-non-food-biogas-and-bio-propane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/commission-opens-in-depth-state-aid-investigation-into-swedish-tax-exemption-schemes-for-non-food-biogas-and-bio-propane\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission opens in-depth State aid investigation into Swedish tax exemption schemes for non-food biogas and bio-propane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125005\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether two Swedish tax exemption schemes for non-food-based biogas and bio-propane used for heating or as motor fuel are in line with EU State aid rules. The in-depth investigation follows the General Court&#8217;s annulment of two previous Commission decisions approving the tax exemptions.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2020, the Commission approved the prolongation until 31 December 2030 of two schemes that exempt from energy and CO\u2082 taxation: (i) biogas and bio-propane that is used in heat generation and (ii) biogas and bio-propane that is used as motor fuel. The Commission found both schemes compatible with EU State aid rules, and in particular with the 2014 Guidelines on State Aid for Environmental Protection and Energy.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2022, the General Court annulled the two 2020 Commission decisions on procedural grounds. The General Court concluded that the Commission should have opened a formal investigation procedure to assess whether the tax exemptions combined with support from other Member States, notably Denmark, led to the overcompensation of biogas producers.<\/p>\n<p>Following the General Court&#8217;s judgment, the Commission needs to open an in-depth investigation to re-examine the compatibility of the tax exemption schemes under EU State aid rules, and in particular the 2014 and 2022 Guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission will now investigate further to determine whether the potential cumulation of aid may lead to overcompensation in favour of those producers when they sell biogas in Sweden. The opening of the in-depth investigation gives Sweden and other interested parties the opportunity to submit their comments. It does not prejudge in any way the outcome of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_24_506\">European Commission<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/125687\/\">Commission opens in-depth State aid investigation into Swedish tax exemption schemes for non-food biogas and bio-propane<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[557,555,2572,7032,848,1812],"class_list":["post-125005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commission","tag-csr-news-en","tag-investigation","tag-state-aid","tag-sweden","tag-tax"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}