Cancellation of the contribution "climate-energy": The French Constitutional Court rules a new carbon tax as contrary to the constitutional principle of equality of treatment and to the goal of the policy to fight against global warning (Financial Law 2010)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – Cons. const. dec. no. 2009-599 DC of 29 December 2009 relating to the Finance Act for 2010 To date, the obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Member States of the Community have only been imposed on the industrial sectors which were the largest emitters of CO2 (mainly in the energy and aviation sectors) through the emission allowance mechanism implemented by Directive 2003/87 as amended by Directive 2009/29 of 23 April 2009). This system is unsuitable for sectors with multiple actors and diffuse emissions. As a result, 60% of emissions in France are not taken into account because they are emitted by sectors excluded from the European