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China has made known its disappointment with the European Commission’s decision to extend its trade duties on Chinese solar products for a further two years, through comments from an official at the Ministry of Commerce.

UPDATED: The minimum import price (MIP) for solar products being sold into the EU will drop significantly in 2017, according to official correspondence seen by PV Tech.

The European Commission has proposed the extension of existing trade duties on Chinese solar products for a further two years.

A group of 22 MEPs have called on the European Commission to end the minimum import price (MIP) agreement and the punitive trade duties currently placed on Chinese cells and modules.

Seraphim Solar has been removed from the MIP by the European Commission after it was found to have been breaching the price undertaking’s rules.

The European Commission has unveiled a package of policy proposals that would transform the continent’s energy market.

Four European countries have signed a joint agreement to establish a roadmap for exchanging electricity from renewable sources between Morocco and Europe.

There is a need for a pan-European investor-state dispute settlement mechanism, to give the solar industry a unified legal body to help it fight retroactive cuts and other policy U-turns across the continent, according to a European trade group.

While Europe's solar industry gathered in Brussels to celebrate 100GW of PV deployments, the future grid policy for renewables was under scrutiny.

Integrated PV manufacturer SolarWorld will lay-off around 500 temporary manufacturing workers in the fourth quarter of this year due to significant price drops on the world market.