Article 4Auctioned products
1.Allowances shall be offered for sale on an auction platform by means of standardised electronic contracts traded on that auction platform (‘the auctioned product’). The auctioned products need not be traded on the same auction platform where the allowances are delivered within two trading days after the auction.
2.Until implementation of the legal measures and technical means necessary to deliver the allowances, Member States shall auction allowances in the form of either futures or forwards.
Futures or forwards shall be auctioned in accordance with Article 11(1), Article 32 and Annex I.
When auctioning futures or forwards, the delivery of the allowances may be deferred to a date no later than 31 December 2013.
3.No later than three months from the implementation of the legal measures and technical means necessary to deliver the allowances, Member States shall auction allowances in the form of either two-day spot or five-day futures.