Licensing requirements in the “Specifications of the Legally Binding Instrument” seem to be a little bit ambiguous. The said provisions should be interpreted separately as regards each of the categories “Relevant Knowledge”, “Foreground” and “Background”. For information defined as “Background” the issue seems to be clear – it is not subject to the knowledge sharing requirements. But the other two categories deserve to be given due consideration.

Everyone knows that CCS is not economic yet. So, what’s the matter with the requirement contained in the Directive that the new combustion plants assessed economic feasibility to retrofit for CO2 capture?