Or, if you knew a bit more about the subject, you might say that much of this mess was due to the tireless work in the European Parliament (which for all its faults is a democratically elected institution) of people like Peter Liese and Caroline Lucas (now a democratically-elected UK MP).
The indigestible bits of ETS - the baseline, the cap and the level of free credits - were all political decisions hammered out within the Parliament.
That said, this issue is the territory of one particular Commissionrer (from Denmark) who is probably more pig-headed than all the rest put together.