BPF News - The BPF continues to lobby hard for a change in the Climate Change Levy, which threatens to substantially increase costs in the EPS packaging industry and across the whole plastics processing sector. BPF write to the Chancellor Of The Exchequer On 2 November 1999 BPF Director General, Peter Davis, wrote to the Chancellor Gordon Brown about the Government's proposal to introduce the Climate Change Levy. Davis called for the Government to scrap plans for the tax in non-energy intensive industries and asked it to rely instead on tough voluntary agreements on energy reduction. The Financial Secretary To The Treasury responds to The BPF also received a written response from Lindsay Hoyle MP who wrote on its behalf to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Stephen Timms MP stating the case of the plastics industry against the Levy. Mr Timms wrote that the BPF’s input to the debate was ‘very helpful’. However the Financial Secretary still claims that the Levy would be revenue neutral for the plastics industry. The Financial Secretary promised that improvements made in energy efficiency by the plastics industry in recent years will be taken into account when setting future targets. The BPF will continue to campaign against the Levy throughout 2000. Director General visits packaging producers Director General of the BPF Peter Davis visited to two EPS packaging producers —Styropack and LINPAC Moulded Foams — in Sussex on 22 September 1999.
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