Projects - Emissions Trading (EU-ETS)

Member State governments, regulators, operators and verifiers have been on a steep learning curve over the last two years since commencement of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). The experience gained during this time will be invaluable in shaping the future development of the scheme. Furthermore the Commission announced that it will undertake a review of the Directive and this presented an opportunity for Member State Competent Authorities to influence the future development of the scheme...
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This report is a summary of the key findings of the IMPEL project ‘Options and proposals for consistency in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme’. The project focussed on four key areas of the EU ETS, which were identified in a previous IMPEL EU ETS project that reported in 2005, i.e.

• Small installations;
• Verification;
• Compliance and enforcement; and
• Monitoring and reporting

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The project on which this report is based set out to identify good regulatory practice in relation to the EU emissions trading scheme (EU ETS), which was established by Directive 2003/87/EC, and to inform the second phase of the EU ETS. It was organised through IMPEL and the information analysed in the project was obtained using a questionnaire that was distributed to regulatory authorities in a number of EU Member States. The questionnaire was finalised on the basis of discussions held at an initial...
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