CELEX: 32010D0778
Language: en
Date: 2010-12-15 00:00:00
Title: 2010/778/EU: Commission Decision of 15 December 2010 amending Decision 2006/944/EC 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 C(2010) 9009)

16.12.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 332/41
            
         COMMISSION DECISION
   of 15 December 2010
   amending Decision 2006/944/EC 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 C(2010) 9009)
   (2010/778/EU)
   THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
   Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
   Having regard to Council Decision 2002/358/EC of 25 April 2002 concerning the approval, on behalf of the European Community, of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the joint fulfilment of commitments thereunder (1), and in particular Article 3 thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Commission Decision 2006/944/EC (2) determines emission levels for the Union and its Member States for the 5-year period of the first commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               The emission levels set out in Decision 2006/944/EC were based on provisional data, as the definitive base-year emission figures were not established by 31 December 2006.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               Following the completion of the reviews conducted pursuant to Article 8 of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the final respective emission levels allocated to the Union and to each Member State should now be established pursuant to the methodology set out in Decision 2006/944/EC.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               Denmark has consistently expressed concerns regarding its base-year emissions as a result of the exceptionally low base-year emissions provided in its report submitted pursuant to Article 23 of Commission Decision 2005/166/EC (3). In order to fully account for Denmark’s special and unique situation, which was recognised by the Council in 2002 in the process leading to the adoption of Decision 2002/358/EC, resulting from its unusually low base-year emissions and its having one of the highest quantified emission reduction obligations pursuant to Annex II to that Decision, the Union should transfer five million assigned amount units to Denmark for the sole purpose of compliance with the commitments in the first commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Commission has taken due consideration of Denmark’s commitment to cancel any allowances remaining from this transfer at the end of the first commitment period.
            
         
               (5)
            
            
               Decision 2006/944/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.
            
         
               (6)
            
            
               The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Climate Change Committee,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   Decision 2006/944/EC is amended as follows:
   
               1.
            
            
               Article 2 is replaced by the following:
               ‘Article 2
               The difference of 19 357 532 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent between the emission levels of the Union 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 Union.’.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The Annex is replaced by the Annex to this Decision.
            
         Article 2
   The Central Administrator of the Union registry shall 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.
   Article 3
   This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
   
      Done at Brussels, 15 December 2010.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         Connie HEDEGAARD
         
            Member of the Commission
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 130, 15.5.2002, p. 1.
   
      (2)  OJ L 358, 16.12.2006, p. 87.
   
      (3)  OJ L 55, 1.3.2005, p. 57.
   
      ANNEX
      
         Respective emission levels allocated to the Union 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 Union (1)
                  
               
               
                  19 621 381 509
               
            
                  Belgium
               
               
                  673 995 528
               
            
                  Denmark
               
               
                  273 827 177
               
            
                  Germany
               
               
                  4 868 096 694
               
            
                  Ireland
               
               
                  314 184 272
               
            
                  Greece
               
               
                  668 669 806
               
            
                  Spain
               
               
                  1 666 195 929
               
            
                  France
               
               
                  2 819 626 640
               
            
                  Italy
               
               
                  2 416 277 898
               
            
                  Luxembourg
               
               
                  47 402 996
               
            
                  Netherlands
               
               
                  1 001 262 141
               
            
                  Austria
               
               
                  343 866 009
               
            
                  Portugal
               
               
                  381 937 527
               
            
                  Finland
               
               
                  355 017 545
               
            
                  Sweden
               
               
                  375 188 561
               
            
                  United Kingdom
               
               
                  3 396 475 254
               
            
         
      
                  Bulgaria
               
               
                  610 045 827
               
            
                  Czech Republic
               
               
                  893 541 801
               
            
                  Estonia
               
               
                  196 062 637
               
            
                  Cyprus
               
               
                  Not applicable
               
            
                  Latvia
               
               
                  119 182 130
               
            
                  Lithuania
               
               
                  227 306 177
               
            
                  Hungary
               
               
                  542 366 600
               
            
                  Malta
               
               
                  Not applicable
               
            
                  Poland
               
               
                  2 648 181 038
               
            
                  Romania
               
               
                  1 279 835 099
               
            
                  Slovenia
               
               
                  93 628 593
               
            
                  Slovakia
               
               
                  331 433 516
               
            
         (1)  For the purpose of the joint fulfilment of the commitments pursuant to 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.