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Subject: CEMBUREAU, European Cement Association / Legal opinion on CBAM and meeting
request on “Fit for 55%” package
Dear Mr Samsom,
Dear Mr. Colombani, Dear Antoine,
I hope all is well. I am writing to follow-up from our previous exchanges on Carbon Border
Adjustment Mechanisms (CBAM) and send you a legal opinion which we have recently
commissioned on the topic. I also wanted to ask whether you would be available for a brief
virtual meeting in the coming weeks.
Firstly, I am pleased to send you the attached legal opinion, which looks at the WTO
compatibility of a CBAM in combination of with free allowances under the EU Emission Trading
Scheme (ETS) and export rebates. The opinion has been developed by
at the request from
CEMBUREAU and other associations. A key conclusion from the opinion is that WTO law does
not
per se prohibit such co-existence of measures, provided that an appropriate methodology is
used to calculate the exact scope of CBAM measures so as not to overlap with the coverage of
ETS allowances. We hope this legal opinion will be helpful and we would of course be pleased to
discuss it.
In addition, I wanted to ask whether you would be available for a brief virtual meeting in the
coming weeks, which would be the occasion to update you on our sector’s decarbonisation
efforts and discuss the upcoming “Fit for 55%” package and CBAM specifically.
As things stand, we would be available on the following dates:
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31st May anytime
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1st June afternoon
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2nd June afternoon
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3rd June anytime
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4th June anytime
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7th June afternoon
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8th June morning
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9th June afternoon
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10th June morning
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14th June afternoon
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15th June morning
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16th June anytime
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18th June anytime
Would any of these dates be convenient from your perspective?
Finally, I wanted to remind you about the attached invitation that we sent to the Executive Vice-
President in view of our large-scale event on 12th October. We would be honoured if the
Executive Vice-President could make himself available to open the sessions with an introductory
speech.
I thank you for your consideration and I look forward to hearing from you.
Best Regards,
CEMBUREAU – The European Cement Association
Rue d'Arlon 55, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
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www.cembureau.eu
EU Transparency Register No: 93987316076-63