CO2 border adjustment mechanism/tax and Western Balkan

The Balkan Green Energy News portal has published the author’s text of Mr. Janez Kopač, Director of the Energy Community Secretariat, who discussed and explained the possibility of introducing a CO2 tax to member states of the Energy Community.
The Energy Community was established as an institutional mechanism for connecting the European Union and the countries of Southeast Europe and the Black Sea Region, in the field of energy policy. The aim of Energy Community is integrating the energy markets of non-EU countries into a single European energy market, as well as investment and economic development, security of supply and social stability in the area of the interest of the Community. The Community was established in October 2005, by signing of the Agreement in Athens, which entered into force in July 2006. Currently, the Energy Community has 8 Signatories/Parties: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine.
Read more about the organization of the Energy Community itself and the obligations of the signatories to the Agreement on the Community website.