EU keeps April 30 deadline to surrender ETS emissions allowances

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Thursday that it was keeping its April 30 deadline for companies to surrender allowances to cover their 2019 emissions under the bloc's carbon market, despite calls from some industry groups to extend it.Under the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS), industry, utilities and airlines running flights inside Europe must report their ETS emissions for the previous calendar year by March 31, and surrender enough carbon permits to cover them by..