German Emissions Trading Authority

Emissions trading/Emissions trading in aviation: Deadline for surrender of allowances for 2017 ends on April 30, 2018 (03/2018)

Dear Sir or Madam,

We would like to remind you about the annual deadline for surrender of allowances. Please provide the number of emission allowances corresponding to the 2017 emissions. If applicable also include any positive or negative balances from previous years, of your facility or your aircraft by Monday 30/04/2018 at the latest. Please take into consideration that the deadline on Monday, 30/04/2018 falls in between a weekend and a national holiday on Tuesday, 01/05/2018. We recommend to surrender the allowances by Friday, 27/04/2018.

For surrender in the Union Registry, please select Accounts > Search > Click on Balance > Propose a transaction > Surrender of allowances. Please note that a surrender transaction can only be made from the corresponding operator holding account or aircraft operator holding account. The Propose a transaction button is only displayed if the account balance is not zero. Furthermore, the transaction type Surrender of allowances is only available if EUA/aEUA are on the account.

After clicking on Surrender of allowances you will be shown an overview of the current compliance situation. The line Compliance Figure indicates whether another surrender transaction is required. If the value is greater than or equal to zero, sufficient allowances have already been surrendered. If the value is negative, you must still execute a surrender transaction of the displayed amount. Please note that the calculation of the compliance figure (sum of all surrendered allowances minus sum of verified emissions) is only correct if the value of the 2017 verified emissions has been entered and confirmed by the verifier.

Surrender transactions can be carried out in the Union Registry at any time, even outside of the transaction window (workdays between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.) which applies to other transaction types. There is also no 26-hour transaction delay. You can view it immediately. The transaction must always be confirmed by a second authorised representative via their task list.

Should you still require allowances, please allow sufficient time for them to be credited to your account before the surrender deadline. If your account needs to be re-registered to the trusted account list of the transferring account, transactions can only be made after seven working days. Working days are Mondays to Fridays.

After expiry of the statutory surrender deadline we will check whether operators have fulfilled their surrender obligation. If you have not surrendered enough emission allowances, a penalty of EUR 100 per missing allowance will be levied pursuant to Article 30 of German Greenhouse Gas Emission Allowance Trading Act (TEHG). Please note that operators are still obliged to surrender missing allowances afterwards, even if any penalties have already been paid.

Further information

Please address your enquiries about emissions trading, preferably by e-mail, to emissionstrading@dehst.de. For any further questions you may also call our service hotline at +49-30-8903 5050, Mondays to Thursdays from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Fridays from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Additionally please find all previous DEHSt mailings on our internet www.dehst.de/English-Mailings.

Yours faithfully,
For the German Environment Agency

Gladys Takramah
Head of section Communication/Customer Service
of the German Emissions Trading Authority at the German Environment Agency

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