Position papers

Europe needs safe and cost-effective solutions for the permanent storage of elemental mercury which is no longer used in chlor-alkali mercury cells (‘excess mercury’)...

The chlor-alkali industry is an electricity-intensive industry that is impacted by the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) due to the CO2 cost included in the electricity price...

The European chlor-alkali industry calls for an ETS reform package that safeguards its international competitiveness and ensures regulatory certainty - in order to provide investment certainty a comprehensive EU wide solution to fully compensate indirect CO2 emission costs is needed...

For industries exposed to international competition, product prices are determined by the international producer which sells at the lowest price...