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It was therefore not surprising that first drafts of the Renewable Energies Directive, leaked
in 2007, included elements of an EU-wide certificate trading system
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. This trading option was
maintained in the official draft (Renewables Directive 2008). At the end of the deliberations in the
European Parliament and the Council, when the final agreement was voted on, a broad majority
once again rejected “harmonisation” of support instruments and insisted on national support
schemes combined with newly introduced “cooperation mechanisms” between Member States
being the key elements for successfully achieving ...