COMMISSION DECISION

of 1 April 2022

instructing the Central Administrator of the European Union Transaction Log to enter changes to the national allocation tables of Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Romania, Finland and Sweden into the European Union Transaction Log

(2022/C 217/03)

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 in their territory pursuant to Article 11(1) of Directive 2003/87/EC (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 Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/447 (4), pursuant to Article 14(5) of 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) Czechia notified changes to its national allocation table, by letter dated 7 March 2022. Installation CZ-116 has been excluded by mistake in final national implementation measures. The final national implementation measures did not include the most recent version of the data to installation CZ-238, which has been corrected.

(6) Denmark notified changes to its national allocation table, by letter dated 8 March 2022. The electricity generator status of installations DK-279 and DK-282 has been corrected to electricity generator. The starting date of operation and the historical activity level of the district heating sub-installation to installation DK-291 has been corrected.

(7) Germany notified changes to its national allocation table, by letters dated 16 February 2022 and 7 March 2022. Installations DE-485, DE-486, DE-202664, DE-202665 and DE-202667 merged with installation DE-410. Activities were merged under installation DE-410, whilst full cessations were reported to installations DE-485, DE-486, DE-202664, DE-202665 and DE-202667. Errors in the calculation of the historical activity level for sub-installations respectively in installation DE-460 and DE-461 have been identified and corrected. Installation DE-1726 has undergone a change in the perimeter of its greenhouse gas permit, leading to an increase in the activity level of its sub-installation. The electricity generator status of installation DE-1126 has been corrected to electricity generator. The electricity exchange factor has been corrected for installation DE-3597.

(8) Greece notified changes to its national allocation table, by letter dated 22 February 2022. Installation GR-205354 was reported in the initial national allocation table with the wrong identification number of the registry account. The new permanent number replaces identification number GR-64.

(9) France notified changes to its national allocation table, by letter dated 10 March 2022. Installation FR-205923 merged with installation FR-206056. Activities were merged under installation FR-206056, whilst full cessation was reported to installation FR-205923. Installation FR-216100 was included in the initial national allocation table with its provisional identification number of the registry account. France reported the new permanent number. Errors due to incorrect versions of national implementation measures data have been corrected for installations FR-475 and FR-67. The sub-installation split of installation FR-205864 has been corrected, reducing the level of allocation of the installation. The amount of heat exported by installation FR-111 has been corrected, subsequently this installation is no longer eligible to receive free allowances.

(10) The Netherlands notified changes to its national allocation table, by letter dated 4 February 2022. Errors in the calculation of the historical activity level of the testliner and fluting sub-installation as well as the recovered paper pulp sub-installation due to wrong normalization of the moisture content to installation NL-83 have been corrected. Errors in the calculation of the historical activity level of the coated carton board sub-installation due to wrong normalisation of the moisture content to installation NL-86 have been corrected.

(11) Austria notified changes to its national allocation table, by letter dated 20 January 2022. The electricity generator status of installation AT-60 has been corrected to not electricity generator.

(12) Poland notified a correction in its national allocation table by letter dated 11 March 2022. Omissions in the heat flows of installations PL-31, PL-861 and PL-203089 have been corrected, and an initially missing fuel benchmark sub-installation has been added for PL-203089 and a missing heat benchmark sub-installation has been added for PL-31.

(13) Romania notified changes to its national allocation table, by letter dated 4 March 2022. The split of heat produced into carbon leakage risk and non-carbon leakage risk sub-installations was corrected to installation RO-9.

(14) Finland notified changes to its national allocation table, by letter dated 2 March 2022. An error in the calculation of the historical activity level of the sub-installation of installation FI-496 has been identified and corrected. Errors found in the attribution of heat and fuel in installation FI-407 have been corrected.

(15) 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 expressed units of air dry tonnes (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’.

(16) 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:

Sole Article The central administrator of the European Union Transaction Log is instructed to enter the corrected national allocation tables of Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Romania, 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, 1 April 2022. 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).