The central administrator shall close an ESD Compliance Account not earlier than one month after the determination of the compliance status figure for that account pursuant to Article 79 and not later than 21 December, and after prior notice to the account holder.

The central administrator shall ensure that the Union Registry carries out a transfer of all international credits, tCERs and lCERs used pursuant to Article 81 to the relevant KP retirement account.

Where the direct transfer to the relevant KP retirement account is prohibited by the rules on transactions applicable to the ITL elaborated under the Kyoto Protocol, the international credits, the tCERs and the lCERs which have been used for compliance shall be transferred first to a dedicated holding account created for this purpose by the national administrator.

On closure of the ESD Compliance Account, the central administrator shall ensure that the Union Registry transfers the AEAs remaining in the ESD Compliance Account to the ESD Deletion Account.