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  • Research and innovation in elderly care now spans the whole of Limburg

    The successful partnership the Living Lab in Ageing & Long-Term Care, initiated by Maastricht University, is being expanded. Having been joined by care organisations De Zorggroep, Proteion and Stichting Land van Horne in north and central Limburg, the partnership now covers the entire province.

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  • UM Education Days 2023 recap and save the dates for 2024

    We are delighted to share the highlights of UM Education Days 2023 through our dedicated recap page, including a beautiful video impression of the event. Mark the dates for the next edition: 12 and 13 June 2024!

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  • Summer time: things to do

    Maastricht is a typical student city: it’s deserted from all life in the summer. The remaining brave ones are almost only here to get some cash at a part-time job, study medicine and thus have to work shifts at the hospital or work at a company as in an intern.  This means life is less vibrant then...

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  • The recipe to build on resilience

    Although the delta variant is currently leading to a sharp increase in the number of positive Covid 19 tests, hospital admissions are fortunately still low. Let's hope it stays this way and that with the growing number of vaccinations we slowly move in the right direction with Covid 19 in Europe. If...

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  • law_mcel_master_working_paper_urgenda_case_and_applicability_of_the_charter_2019.pdf  (485.12 kB, PDF)
    … Nicolaas Hendriks, for providing me with support and encouragement throughout the process of researching and writing this thesis. Table of Contents List of Abbreviations i Abstract ii 1. Introduction 0 1.1 Research question(s) 1 1.2 Method 2 2. EU Greenhouse Gas Reduction Legislation: Commitments for Member States 4 2.1 The EU 2020 climate and energy package 4 2.2 The EU Emissions Trading Scheme 4 2.3 The Effort Sharing Decision 6 2.4 The possibility of further going action, cf. Art 193 TFEU 6 … cap decreases each year by a linear reduction factor of 1.74% of the average total quantity of allowances issued annually in 2008-2012,22 cf. Art 9(1) of the EU ETS.23 Within the cap, companies in the concerned industries under the EU ETS receive or buy emission allowances. They can trade these allowances with other companies included in the scheme, cf. Art 12(1) of the EU ETS. Each year, in April, the companies must surrender enough allowances to cover all their emissions of the preceding … Under certain conditions, the Member States may transfer the part of their annual emission allocation that exceeds their greenhouse gas emissions for that year to other Member States, cf. Art 3(5) of the ESD. This means that a Member State can buy allowances to cover up a potential shortage. So, as can be seen, under both the EU ETS and the ESD, there are possibilities that allow for a certain flexibility when industries and Member States, respectively, are to fulfil their obligations under …