2006/944/EC: Commission Decision of 14 December 2006 determining the respective emission levels allocated to the Community and each of its Member States under the Kyoto Protocol pursuant to Council Decision 2002/358/EC (notified under document number C(2006) 6468)
Date: 2006-12-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, climate change, greenhouse gas, reduction of gas emissions

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 358/87

COMMISSION DECISION

of 14 December 2006

determining the respective emission levels allocated to the Community and each of its Member
States under the Kyoto Protocol pursuant to Council Decision 2002/358/EC

(notified under document number C(2006) 6468)

(2006/944/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Member State have to be equal
respective
emission level determined in the Annex to this Decision.

to their

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Decision 2002/358/EC of 25 April
the European
2002 concerning the approval, on behalf of
Community, of
to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change and the joint
fulfilment of commitments thereunder (1), and in particular
Article 3 thereof,

the Kyoto Protocol

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

quantified

Annex II
to Decision 2002/358/EC sets quantified
emission limitation or reduction commitments for the
purpose of determining the emission levels allocated to
the Community and its Member States subject to Article
4 of the Kyoto Protocol. Annex B to the Kyoto Protocol
sets
reduction
commitments
the purpose of determining the
emission levels allocated to the Member States that
acceded to the Community after 25 April 2002, except
Cyprus and Malta which do not yet have quantified
emission limitation or reduction commitments under
the Kyoto Protocol.

limitation

emission

for

or

The emission levels allocated to the Community and its
Member States, expressed in tonnes of carbon dioxide
equivalent,
are determined in the Annex to this
Decision. These emission levels are calculated on the
basis of the revised base-year emissions data submitted
by Member States pursuant to Article 23 of Commission
Decision 2005/166/EC of 10 February 2005 laying
down rules implementing Decision 280/2004/EC of the
European Parliament and of the Council concerning a
mechanism for monitoring Community greenhouse gas
emissions and for implementing the Kyoto Protocol (2),
multiplied by the quantified emission limitation or
reduction commitments set out in Annex II to Decision
2002/358/EC and Annex B to the Kyoto Protocol,
multiplied by five,
the
Protocol's first commitment period.

the five years of

to represent

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

The revision of emissions data for the base-year under
the Kyoto Protocol,
submitted by Member States
to Article 23 of Decision 2005/166/EC,
pursuant
recalculation resulting in an arithmetic
required a
difference of 11 393 397 tonnes of carbon dioxide
for
equivalent between the
the
European Community and the sum of
the assigned
amounts of the Member States listed in Annex II to
Decision 2002/358/EC. This difference should be issued
as assigned amount units by the Community.

assigned amount

has

expressed

consistently

year
pursuant

emissions provided in its

assumptions
Denmark
concerning its base-year emissions. These assumptions
are supported by the information on its exceptionally
report
low base
of Decision
submitted
special
2005/166/EC.
resulting from its unusually low base-year
situation,
emissions and having one of
the highest quantified
emission reduction obligations pursuant to Annex II to
Decision 2002/358/EC, the Community should forward
5 million assigned amount units to Denmark.

In recognition of Denmark’s

to Article

23

in the

emission levels of

the
final
Any changes
Community and its Member States resulting from the
review of the emission levels pursuant to Article 8 of
the Kyoto Protocol
should be specified through an
amendment to this Decision.

The measures provided for
accordance with the opinion of
Committee,

in this Decision are in
the Climate Change

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

(3)

In accordance with Article 3 of Decision 2002/358/EC,
the assigned amounts of the Community and of each

(1) OJ L 130, 15.5.2002, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 55, 1.3.2005, p. 57.

Article 1

The emission levels in terms of
tonnes of carbon dioxide
equivalent allocated to the Community and to Member States
for
the first quantified emission limitation and reduction
commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol are set out in
the Annex.

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Article 2

The difference of 11 393 397 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent between the emission levels of the
Community and the sum of the emission levels of the Member States listed in Annex II to Decision
2002/358/EC shall be issued as assigned amount units by the Community.

The Commission shall instruct the Central Administrator of the Community registry to transfer five million
(5 000 000) of these assigned amount units to the Party to the Kyoto Protocol holding account in the
registry of Denmark.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 14 December 2006.

For the Commission

Stavros DIMAS
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Emission levels allocated to the European Community and Member States in terms of tonnes of carbon dioxide
equivalent for the first quantified emission limitation and reduction commitment period under the Kyoto
Protocol

European Community (1)

19 683 181 601

Belgium

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Austria

Portugal

Finland

Sweden

United Kingdom

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Estonia

Latvia

Lithuania

Hungary

Malta

Poland

Slovenia

Slovakia

679 368 682

273 827 177

4 868 520 955

694 087 947

1 663 967 412

2 819 626 640

315 158 338

2 429 132 197

45 677 304

1 008 565 720

343 405 392

386 956 503

355 480 975

375 864 317

3 412 080 630

Not applicable

902 890 649

197 902 558

119 113 402

221 275 934

578 260 222

Not applicable

2 673 496 300

92 934 961

337 456 459

(1) For the purpose of the joint fulfilment of the commitments under Article 3(1) of the Kyoto Protocol in accordance with the provisions
of Article 4 thereof, pursuant to Decision 2002/358/EC and applying to the Member States listed in Annex II to that Decision.