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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 (Text with EEA relevance) ANNEX I CATEGORIES OF ACTIVITIES REFERRED TO IN ARTICLES 2(1), 3, 4, 14(1), 28 AND 30 ANNEX II GREENHOUSE GASES REFERRED TO IN ARTICLES 3 AND 30 ANNEX III CRITERIA FOR NATIONAL ALLOCATION PLANS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLES 9, 22 AND 30 ANNEX IV PRINCIPLES FOR MONITORING AND REPORTING REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 14(1) ANNEX V CRITERIA FOR VERIFICATION REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 15 · European Union

Member States shall take the necessary steps to ensure that allowances are cancelled at any time at the request of the person holding them. In the event of closure of electricity generation capacity in their territory due to additional national measures, Member States may cancel allowances, and are strongly encouraged to do so, from the total quantity of allowances to be auctioned by them referred to in Article 10(2) up to an amount corresponding to the average verified emissions of the installation concerned over a period of five years preceding the closure. The Member State concerned shall inform the Commission of such intended cancellation, or of the reasons for not cancelling, in accordance with the delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 10(4).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as consolidated on 2024-03-01; changes after this date are not shown.