Environmental duties needed to protect business - Urso

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 30 - Environmental duties are needed to protect European businesses from unfair competition from companies operating in countries that do not have the same environmental standards, Business and Made in Italy Minister Adolfo Urso said on Tuesday.
    "It can be done," said Urso during a conference on the European energy market in Rome.
    "It must be done, including through regulations on imports and exports, the ones that are rightly called 'environmental duties'," he added.
    The minister said "an assertive and supportive policy" is needed to protect European companies "that have production processes that are more difficult to decarbonize and greater exposure to competition from countries that do not have constraints imposed by environmental and social standards". (ANSA).