CELEX: 62015CA0158
Language: en
Date: 2016-06-09 00:00:00
Title: Case C-158/15: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 9 June 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State — Netherlands) — Elektriciteits Produktiemaatschappij Zuid-Nederland EPZ NV v Bestuur van de Nederlandse Emissieautoriteit (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Atmospheric pollution — Scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading — Directive 2003/87/EC — Concept of ‘installation’ — Inclusion of the fuel storage site — Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 — Concept of ‘fuel exported from the installation’)

16.8.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 296/14
            
         Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 9 June 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State — Netherlands) — Elektriciteits Produktiemaatschappij Zuid-Nederland EPZ NV v Bestuur van de Nederlandse Emissieautoriteit
   (Case C-158/15) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Atmospheric pollution - Scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading - Directive 2003/87/EC - Concept of ‘installation’ - Inclusion of the fuel storage site - Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 - Concept of ‘fuel exported from the installation’))
   (2016/C 296/19)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Raad van State
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Elektriciteits Produktiemaatschappij Zuid-Nederland EPZ NV
   
      Defendant: Bestuur van de Nederlandse Emissieautoriteit
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   
               1.
            
            
               A fuel storage site of a coal-fired power plant such as that at issue in the main proceedings and as described by the referring court is part of an ‘installation’ within the meaning of Article 3(e) of 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 Directive 96/61/EC, as amended by Decision No 1359/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The first subparagraph of Article 27(2) of Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 of 21 June 2012 on the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to Directive 2003/87, as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 206/2014 of 4 March 2014, must be interpreted as meaning that coal lost as a result of the process by which it naturally self-heats while in storage on a site that is part of an installation within the meaning of Article 3(e) of Directive 2003/87 cannot be regarded as coal exported from that installation.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 205, 22.6.2015.