CELEX: 62017CA0229
Language: en
Date: 2018-05-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-229/17: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 17 May 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin — Germany) — Evonik Degussa GmbH v Federal Republic of Germany (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the European Union — Free allocation — Directive 2003/87/EC — Article 10a — Annex I — Decision 2011/278/EU — Annex I, Part 2 — Determination of product benchmarks — Production of hydrogen — System boundaries of the product benchmark for hydrogen — Process element of separation of hydrogen in a rich gas stream which already contains hydrogen)

201806220201970712018/C 240/082292017CJC24020180709EN01ENINFO_JUDICIAL201805176611Case C-229/17: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 17 May 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin — Germany) — Evonik Degussa GmbH v Federal Republic of Germany (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the European Union — Free allocation — Directive 2003/87/EC — Article 10a — Annex I — Decision 2011/278/EU — Annex I, Part 2 — Determination of product benchmarks — Production of hydrogen — System boundaries of the product benchmark for hydrogen — Process element of separation of hydrogen in a rich gas stream which already contains hydrogen)
 ---documentbreak--- C2402018EN610120180517EN00086161Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 17 May 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin — Germany) — Evonik Degussa GmbH v Federal Republic of Germany
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   ‛(Reference for a preliminary ruling — Environment — Scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the European Union — Free allocation — Directive 2003/87/EC — Article 10a — Annex I — Decision 2011/278/EU — Annex I, Part 2 — Determination of product benchmarks — Production of hydrogen — System boundaries of the product benchmark for hydrogen — Process element of separation of hydrogen in a rich gas stream which already contains hydrogen)’2018/C 240/08Language of the case: German
      Referring court
   
   Verwaltungsgericht Berlin
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Evonik Degussa GmbH
   
      Defendant: Federal Republic of Germany
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Annex I, Part 2, to Commission Decision 2011/278/EU of 27 April 2011 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 must be interpreted as meaning that a process, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which does not produce hydrogen by chemical synthesis, but only isolates hydrogen already contained in a gas mixture, does not fall within the system boundaries of the product benchmark for hydrogen. It would be otherwise only if that process, first, is associated with ‘production of hydrogen’ within the meaning of Annex I to 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, as amended by Directive 2009/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 and, second, have a technical connection with it.
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      )	OJ C 256, 7.8.2017.