COMMISSION DECISION

of 17 December 2021

instructing the Central Administrator of the European Union Transaction Log to enter the national allocation tables of Belgium, Germany, Greece, Croatia, Latvia, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Finland and Sweden into the European Union Transaction Log

2022/C 77/02

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/1122 of 12 March 2019 supplementing Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the functioning of the Union Registry (1), and in particular Article 46(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Member States submitted to the Commission the list of installations under their territory pursuant to Article 11(1) of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (2).

(2) In accordance with Article 2 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/355 (3), the Commission raised no objections to the lists of installations covered by Directive 2003/87/EC as submitted by Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland and Sweden, except as set out in Article 1 and Annexes of that Decision.

(3) Member States determined and notified the preliminary annual amounts of free allowances per installation using the revised benchmark values determined in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/447 (4), pursuant to Article 14(5) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/331 (5).

(4) In Article 1 of Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/927 (6), it was determined that no adjustment needs to be applied to the preliminary annual amounts of free allowances pursuant to Article 10a(5) of Directive 2003/87/EC, as demand did not exceed the maximum amount.

(5) Belgium notified changes to its national allocation table, by letter dated 27 October 2021. The changes concerned installations BE-215020, BE-204193, BE-215022, BE-215200, BE-215240, BE-276, BE-215060 and BE-215220 that were included in the initial national allocation table with their provisional identification numbers of the registry account. Belgium reported the new permanent numbers. Moreover, Belgium corrected the amount of heat produced under carbon leakage risk of installation BE-256 and therefore, the initial final amount of free allowances was corrected.

(6) Germany notified changes to its national allocation table, by letter dated 18 November 2021. Installation DE-79 corrected the annual activity levels of the grey cement clinker sub-installation and the calculated historical activity level. The heat balance in installation DE-531 was corrected as more heat imported from installation that was not under emissions trading system (ETS) was consumed for the product benchmark sub-installation. Also, the heat balance in installation DE-950 was corrected as part of the heat was not reported as export to ETS installation. The operators of installations DE-1480 and DE-206010 renounced their application for free emissions allowances. Installation DE-new-14611-0017 was introduced in the system after the split of incumbent installation DE-205246 into two installations. The split occurred after the submission of German national implementation measures on 31 September 2019 and was not reported in the national allocation table, which should be corrected accordingly.

(7) Greece notified a correction in its national allocation table concerning installation GR-203127, by letter dated 15 October 2021. Installation GR-203073 was merged with installation GR-203127, however, only data from the first installation was reported in the final national implementation measures and consequently the final annual amount of emissions allowances was not correct. Greece corrected its national allocation table by updating the data concerning the new merged installation.

(8) Croatia notified a correction in its national allocation table by letter dated 4 October 2021. Installation HR-205907 was included by mistake in the national allocation table as it was excluded from ETS pursuant to Article 27.

(9) Latvia notified corrections in its national allocation table concerning the registry identification number of installations LV-204013, LV-114 and LV-206234, by letter dated 10 November 2021.

(10) Hungary notified corrections in its national allocation table that occurred because it was not in line with the submission of the final national implementation measures by mistake. The national allocation table was replaced with the correct one. Hungary notified the necessary changes by letter dated 15 November 2021.

(11) The Netherlands notified a correction in its national allocation table by letter dated 5 November 2021. The change concerned installation NL-99. The Netherlands identified errors in the calculation of the historical activity level of the refinery products sub-installation and in particular, the CO2 weighted tonnes.

(12) Poland notified a correction in its national allocation table by letter dated 24 November 2021, concerning installation PL-208182. Poland corrected the split of heat produced into carbon leakage risk and non-carbon leakage risk sub-installations.

(13) Finland notified corrections to its national allocation table by letter dated 26 November 2021. Installations FI-12, FI- 207707, FI-236, FI-239, FI-398, FI-450, FI-457, FI-458, FI-477, FI-632, FI-650 reported wrong heat balance between eligible and non-eligible heat for free allocation. Finland corrected the reported heat values and therefore the historical activity levels.

(14) Sweden notified corrections to its national allocation table by letter dated 22 November 2021. The corrections regarding installation SE-350 concern reported values for electricity consumption that are used for calculating the electricity exchange factor. The corrections regarding installation SE-426 concern errors in determination of the CWT values for propylene production. As regards installation SE-428, the operator did not report the uncoated carton board in units of adt (6 % water content) but instead they reported the uncoated carton board with a humidity of 1,2 to 1,4 %. As regards installation SE-812, the reported status regarding electricity production was erroneously reported as ‘False’ while it should be ‘True’.

(15) The notified national allocation tables are in conformity with Directive 2003/87/EC and Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/331 and Decision (EU) 2021/355,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Single article The central administrator of the European Union Transaction Log is instructed to enter the corrected national allocation tables of Belgium, Germany, Greece, Croatia, Latvia, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Finland and Sweden, with the final annual amounts for the transitional free allocation of emission allowances for the period from 2021 to 2025, as set out in the Annex, into the European Union Transaction Log.

Done at Brussels, 17 December 2021. For the Commission Frans TIMMERMANS Executive Vice-President

(1) OJ L 177, 2.7.2019, p. 3.

(2) Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC (OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 32).

(3) Commission Decision (EU) 2021/355 of 25 February 2021 concerning national implementation measures for the transitional free allocation of greenhouse gas emission allowances in accordance with Article 11(3) of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 68, 26.2.2021, p. 221).

(4) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/447 of 12 March 2021 determining revised benchmark values for free allocation of emission allowances for the period from 2021 to 2025 pursuant to Article 10a(2) of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 87, 15.3.2021, p. 29).

(5) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/331 of 19 December 2018 determining transitional Union-wide rules for harmonised free allocation of emission allowances pursuant to Article 10a of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 59, 27.2.2019, p. 8).

(6) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/927 of 31 May 2021 determining the uniform cross-sectoral correction factor for the adjustment of free allocations of emission allowances for the period 2021 to 2025 (OJ L 203, 9.6.2021, p. 14).