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Agreement reached on cutting aviation emissions

Posted on 19th October 2017 by Linda Teague

EU lawmakers last night reached a deal that will continue to see international flights exempted from the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme until 2023. Julie Girling, MEP for the South West and Gibraltar, was the European Parliament’s lead negotiator on the agreement and has welcomed the deal that will still see internal flights within the EU coming under the ETS and…

Brexit Negotiations Vote

Posted on 6th October 2017 by Linda Teague

Dear Constituents I wanted to put forward my explanation for my recent vote on the non-binding resolution on the progress of the Brexit Negotiations. The headlines that you have seen do not reflect the whole resolution, much of the media coverage has reduced the vote to a zero-sum game – not something I recognise. I did not vote to prevent…

Girling: EU changes will threaten popular dieting products

Posted on 26th September 2017 by Linda Teague

September 13 2017 Europe-wide changes that threaten the viability of some popular dieting products will go ahead after Conservative attempts to have the proposals scrapped were narrowly defeated today. Although a majority of MEPs backed an objection lodged by the party’s Food Safety Spokesman Julie Girling, the total was 31 votes short of the 376 absolute majority required. Mrs Girling,…

MEPs back Girling plan for tackling aviation emissions

Posted on 26th September 2017 by Linda Teague

September 13 2017 Commercial flights in and out of Europe will continue to be exempt from the EU’s carbon emission controls, heading off a potential confrontation with the airline industry. MEPs today approved a report by Julie Girling MEP which extends the exemption until 2021, when the International Civil Aviation Authority is due to introduce a global carbon offsetting scheme…

On National Day we celebrate Gibraltar’s spirit

Posted on 5th September 2017 by Linda Teague

Conservative MEP Julie Girling is sending the people of Gibraltar a message of congratulation and support for National Day this weekend. The celebrations on September 10 will commemorate Gibraltar’s first referendum of 1967 in which Gibraltarians were asked whether they wished to either pass under Spanish sovereignty or remain under British sovereignty. Mrs Girling, who represents the South West and…

MEPs back Girling plan for tackling aviation carbon emissions

Posted on 11th July 2017 by Linda Teague

International commercial flights should be granted a further exemption from the EU’s carbon emissions controls, but only until 2021, MEPs agreed today. A report by Conservative Environment Spokesman Julie Girling MEP proposes that the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) be allowed more time to establish a global carbon offsetting scheme, which would freeze emissions at 2020 levels. The current exemption…

Girling helps deliver simpler energy labels on household products

Posted on 14th June 2017 by Linda Teague

MEP Julie Girling is backing new labelling rules to help customers choose low-energy “white goods” such as cookers and fridges. The new rules making energy-labelling much more simple and clear were voted through by the European Parliament in Strasbourg today (Tuesday). The existing system includes the rankings A+, A++ and A+++ – so a product with an A rating may…

ETS Rapporteur Girling welcomes Strasbourg debate on Trump and Paris

Posted on 9th June 2017 by Linda Teague

Julie Girling MEP has welcomed news that the European Parliament will next week debate climate change and President Trump’s decision to ditch the landmark Paris agreement As the Parliament’s rapporteur on phase IV of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and the aviation ETS proposal, she insisted that the EU must step up to challenge the United States if the new…

Let’s end this unfair tax on e-books

Posted on 1st June 2017 by Linda Teague

Campaigning MEP Julie Girling is backing moves to cut VAT on e-books. She will support a vote in the European Parliament tomorrow (Thurs) calling for the discrepancy to be ended which obliges governments to slap hefty VAT charges on e-books and other digital publishing while the tax is waived for printed books and newspapers. In Britain, for example, newspapers and…

“Ban” on replacement diets could cost lives

Posted on 3rd May 2017 by Linda Teague

The fight against obesity and diabetes could be severely hampered by an effective ban on use of total replacement diets for severe cases, a campaigning MEP warned today. Julie Girling, Conservative MEP for the South West, spoke out at a high level conference at the European Parliament in Brussels, which she co-chaired. Consumers and suppliers fear that planned EU legislation…