BusinessEurope calls on the European Commission to take further action on high energy prices
BusinessEurope wanted to highlight the negative impact that high energy prices are having on the survival of European companies, many of which are in a critical condition, and in a letter to the president of the European Commission it urgently askes that further measures be adopted.

Among others, it proposes:
- extending the Temporary Crisis Framework,
- a less strict definition of eligibility criteria for compensation of energy costs and
- a temporary extension of the list of sectors eligible for indirect cost compensation (ETS).
Regarding 14 September package proposed by the European Commission on emergency intervention, BusinessEurope calls for measures to be proportionate and to not compromise companies’ ability to invest in decarbonisation and supply the European market.
It calls for, among other points: the inframarginal revenue ceiling to be applied exclusively to the spot market; some variations in the method of calculating profits for applying the solidarity contribution and an equitable redistribution of resources collected among vulnerable households and intensive industry.
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