Energy, Estonia, EU – Baltic States, Legislation

Europarliament's Science, Industry and Energy Committee voted namely upon a directive, which sets limits on air pollution.

"This directive sets limits regarding dust particles and sulphur dioxide. It is important for Estonia, because there is a lot of dust in the emissions of the cogeneration plants using biomass," Estonia's European Parliament member Kaja Kallas explained.

"Since also many Nordic countries had the same problem, we managed to get the dust topic off the agenda, i.e. an exception was made regarding that," she added.

The committee did not support the exception regarding oil shale stations that Estonia had requested.

"Estonia now has two choices to consider. Either to make very expensive investments in the filters of two power stations using oil shale or close these stations by 2035," said Kallas.