The Government approved a version of climate law that will not affect fuel prices

At today’s meeting, the government approved the proposal of a climate law, which a month ago, explaining that the proposal was not yet coordinated, withdrew from the hearing. Corrections have been introduced into the new version, which is supposed to ensure that the law will not affect consumer fuel prices.

It was this fear that was the cause of withdrawal of the bill from the agenda of the government session in the last moment a month ago. Today, the government has confirmed the revised version to ensure that higher fuel suppliers, which will now have to pay for emission coupons, will not be transferred to the fuel prices at gas stations.

The adoption of a climate law was one of the key commitments of the government Robert Golobwritten in a coalition agreement. The urgency of his adoption was also pointed out by the climate council, which is a consultative body of the government.

It is an important systemic law that lays the foundations of climate policies. It is supposed to provide better adaptation to climate change, and would also transfer more European directives and regulations to Slovenian law and allow more than half a billion European funds to be drawn.

In the first draft, the climate law provided for the immediate elimination of subsidies for fossil fuels. After all the coordination, these provisions were deleted. Another eliminated provision envisaged that Slovenia would overtake a new directive on emissions (ETS), which also includes traffic and other use of fossil fuels in households, such as heating oil.

Higher taxation of fossil fuels, when adopting a climate law without deleting this provision, would only be valid in Slovenia in 2026, since the introduction of a new directive throughout the EU is envisaged for 2027.