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​How to surrender carbon allowances?

Registry - Open & Operate


Aircraft operators must have an account open with the Union Registry in order to be able to comply with the EU ETS. If you do not already have an open account, be aware that in certain Member States (e.g. the UK), it is now possible to use a third-party supplier to open and operate your registry account on your behalf. If you need contact details of companies which offer this service, please ask me.

Reminder: the Union Registry is an online database hosted and managed by the European Commission. It operates in a similar way to an internet bank account, and records allowance allocations for aircraft operators, annual verified emissions, transaction history of allowance transfers and surrenders of allowances.

Click here for more information about the Union registry


Registry - Propose

If you report to Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, and Sweden, it is your responsibility to enter (to 'propose') your emissions in the Union Registry. In order to do so, you need to appoint Verifavia as your verifier. As soon as you have proposed your emissions, please send me an email so that I can validate your entry through the Union Registry account of Verifavia.

Click here to go to the Registry website
Click here to access the user guide


If you report to any other Member State, it is either you or the national registry administrator who enters your emissions. Verifavia is not involved in this process. Please contact your Competent Authority if you have any doubts about what you have to do.

 

Registry - Surrender carbon allowances


By 30 April, you must log on to your account and surrender the number of allowances that correspond to your verified and validated annual emissions figure. 1 tonne of CO2 emissions corresponds to 1 allowance. 

You must do this through your Union Registry account before 30 April N+1. Please note that this deadline is a 'hard' deadline, meaning that access to the Union Registry is expected to be blocked starting from 1 May.

 

 
» Stop-the-clock Decision of 24 April 2013
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