Commission Regulation (EC) No 2216/2004 (repealed)Show full title

ANNEX XIV Initialisation procedures

1. By 1 September 2004 at the latest, each Member State shall notify the Commission of the following information:

(a)

Name, address, city, postcode, country, telephone number, facsimile number and e-mail address of the registry administrator for its registry.

(b)

Address, city, postcode and country of the physical location of the registry.

(c)

The uniform resource locator (URL) and the port(s) of both the secure area and public area of the registry, and the URL and the port(s) of the testing area.

(d)

Description of the primary and backup hardware and software used by the registry, and of the hardware and software supporting the testing area pursuant to Article 68.

(e)

Description of the systems and procedures for the safeguarding of all data, including the frequency with which a backup of the database is undertaken, and the systems and procedures for prompt recovery of all data and operations in the event of a disaster pursuant to Article 68.

(f)

Description of the security plan of the registry established pursuant to the general security requirements under Annex XV.

(g)

Description of the system and procedures of the registry in respect of change management pursuant to Article 72.

(h)

Information requested by the Central Administrator to enable the distribution of digital certificates pursuant to Annex XV.

Any subsequent changes shall be promptly notified to the Commission.

2. For the period 2005-2007, each Member State shall notify the Commission of the number of force majeure allowances to be issued, subsequent to an authorisation to issue such allowances being granted by the Commission pursuant to Article 29 of Directive 2003/87/EC.

3. In advance of the 2008-2012 period and each subsequent five year period, each Member State shall notify the Commission of the following information:

(a)

The total number of ERUs and CERs which operators are allowed to use for each period pursuant to Article 11a(1) of Directive 2003/87/EC.

(b)

The commitment period reserve, calculated in accordance with Decision 18/CP.7 of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC as 90 per cent of the Member State’s assigned amount or 100 % of five times its most recently reviewed inventory, whichever is lowest. Any subsequent changes shall be promptly notified to the Commission.

National allocation plan table requirements

4. Each national allocation plan shall be submitted in accordance with the formats set out in paragraphs 5 and 7.

5. The format for submitting a national allocation plan table to the Commission is the following:

(a)

Total number of allowances allocated: in a single cell the total number of allowances that are allocated for the period covered by the national allocation plan.

(b)

Total number of allowances in the new entrants reserve: in a single cell the total number of allowances that are set aside for new entrants for the period covered by the national allocation plan.

(c)

Years: in individual cells for each of the years covered in the national allocation plan from 2005 onwards in ascending order.

(d)

Installation identification code: in individual cells comprising the elements set out in Annex VI and in ascending order.

(e)

Allocated allowances: the allowances to be allocated for a specified year for a specified installation shall be entered into the cell connecting that year to that installation’s identification code.

6. The installations listed under paragraph 5(d) shall include installations unilaterally included under Article 24 of Directive 2003/87/EC and shall not include any installations temporarily excluded under Article 27 of Directive 2003/87/EC.

7. The XML schema for submitting a national allocation plan table to the Commission is the following:

8. As part of the initialisation procedures set out in the functional and technical specifications for data exchange standards for registry systems under the Kyoto Protocol, elaborated pursuant to Decision 24/CP.8 of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, the Commission shall inform the Secretariat to the UNFCCC of the account identification codes of the cancellation accounts, retirement accounts and replacement accounts of each registry.