National allocation plan

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The national allocation plan ( NAP for short , also national allocation plan ) was an overview of the national distribution of emissions to be created by each member state of the European Union at the beginning of the first (years 2005–2007) and second (years 2008–2012) trading period within the framework of European greenhouse gas emissions trading Emissions certificates .

By restricting the national volume quotas for emission allowances, the goal of the Kyoto Protocol , namely to reduce joint emissions of greenhouse gases by 8% in the period 2008–2012 compared to 1990 levels, should be achieved in an economically viable manner. An EU-wide volume quota was introduced in 2013, and since then national allocation plans no longer have to be drawn up.

overview

The determination of national volume quotas for emission allowances and rules for their allocation to the participating companies or plant operators (initially only for carbon dioxide , CO 2 ) formed the basis of the European Union's emissions trading for the first and second trading period, between 2005 and 2012. Since the third trading period from 2013, the emission rights have been assigned centrally by the European Commission.

Article 9 of the Emissions Trading Directive (Directive 2003/87 / EC) of October 13, 2003 obliged the member states of the European Union to draw up national allocation plans by March 31, 2004 for the first time. Such a nap contained

  • a macro plan of how many emissions certificates the Member State wanted to issue in total for the trading period (their volume quota, the national "cap") and how many of them which economic sector should receive, and
  • a microplan of the rules according to which - based on the actual emissions of a base period - individual installations should receive emission allowances.

Many member states agreed macro and micro plan using sector-specific ones Compliance factors depend on each other. If the total of the emissions to be allocated in accordance with the micro plan was above the target value of the macro plan, the individual allocations were uniformly reduced by multiplying them by the compliance factor. Were z. If, for example, 5 million emission certificates are planned for an industry, but 5.5 million should have been allocated according to the requests of the plant operators, the number of emission certificates to be issued was evenly reduced to 5 million using the compliance factor 0.909 (5.5 × 0.909 = 5, 0).

The Member States had to publish their national allocation plans and had to be sent to the Commission. A committee examined the plans. The Commission could reject all or part of the plans examined.

Key data on selected national allocation plans
country Trading period Release Date Allocation amount per year (million tons) Reserve (%) Number of plants affected by EU emissions trading Allocation of emission certificates
Denmark 2005-2007 March 31, 2004 33.5 3 380 95% free allotment; 5% by auction
Denmark 2008–2012 . . . . .
Germany 2005-2007 March 31, 2004 499 0.6 1,849 100% free allocation
Germany 2008–2012 February 13, 2007 456.1 5.9 1,850 100% free allocation
United Kingdom 2005-2007 . 245.4 6.3 674 .
United Kingdom 2008–2012 August 21, 2006 246.2 7th 1,172 93% free allotment; 7% by auction
Italy 2005-2007 . 223.1 0 1240 100% free allocation
Italy 2008–2012 December 18, 2006 209 8.7 . .
Austria 2005-2007 March 31, 2004 33 1 205 100% free allocation
Austria 2008–2012 June 29, 2007 30.7 1 . 98.7% free allotment; 1.3% per auction

National allocation plans in Germany

National allocation plan 2005–2007

The first National Allocation Plan for the Federal Republic of Germany for the first trading period from 2005 to 2007 (NAP I) was adopted by the Federal Cabinet on March 31, 2004 as part of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Act. The main contents of the NAP 2005–2007 were adopted in the Allocation Act 2007 (ZuG 2007), which was passed on July 9, 2004 by the Bundestag. It came into force on August 31, 2004 (BGBL I 2004 p. 2211). Compared to the NAP, there were a number of changes in the 2007 Allocation Act. The ZuG is based on the National Allocation Plan and defines the total amount of CO 2 emission allowances that can be allocated as well as concrete stipulations of rules and allocation amounts. In general, the German emission targets for the sectors of industry, energy, transport, private households as well as commerce, trade and services were set. The companies subject to emissions trading fell almost exclusively into the industrial and energy sectors.

Overall, the ZuG 2007 stipulated the following emission quantities for the first allocation period (trading period) 2005 to 2007 in million tons of carbon dioxide per year:

  • Energy and Industry 503
  • other sectors 356 of which:
    • Transport and households 298.
    • Commerce, trade, services 58.

National Allocation Plan 2008–2012

On June 28, 2006, the Federal Cabinet decided on the second National Allocation Plan for the Federal Republic of Germany for the period 2008 to 2012 (NAP II) and submitted it to the EU Commission on June 30, 2006 in due time. The legal implementation of NAP II took place in the Allocation Act 2012 (ZuG 2012). On June 28, 2006, the Federal Cabinet passed the Data Collection Ordinance 2012 (DEV 2012) for a more precise database for the NAP II. According to DEV 2012, CO 2 emissions from the plants affected by emissions trading (around 1,800 in Germany) for the years 2003 and 2004 (in certain cases also for the years 2000 to 2002) were subsequently recorded.

With the NAP II, the emission targets for all sectors (energy and industry, transport, households, trade / trade / services) were set. The energy and industry sectors had to make a total reduction of 15 million tonnes of CO 2 per year compared to the average for the years 2000–2002 (- 3%). While the maximum emissions limit (cap) was 499 million tons of CO 2 in the first emissions trading phase 2005–2007 , this limit was reduced to 465 million tons in NAP II (original plan 482 million tons, see below). In addition, the NAP II differentiated the reduction targets for plants for the first time: while in the NAP I all plants had to reduce their CO 2 emissions by a uniform 2.91%, the NAP II applied sector-specific reduction targets: industrial plants that were exposed to international competition had to have theirs Reduce emissions by 1.25%, as do combined heat and power plants. Energy companies, on the other hand, had to reduce their CO 2 emissions by 15%, and particularly inefficient lignite and coal-fired power plants by 30% from 2008. Small plants with a maximum of 25,000 t CO 2 emissions, on the other hand, were completely exempted from reduction obligations.

Tightening of NAP II Due to the evaluation of NAP I by the EU Commission and its demand for improvements, NAP II was tightened. In the revised NAP II (draft of February 13, 2007) the total amount of emission rights certificates allocated for the installations subject to emissions trading in Germany was reduced from 482 million tons to 456.1 million tons per year (including reserve). In addition, the CO 2 reserve was increased from 17 million certificates per year to 27 million certificates per year. With this tightening of the NAP II, the German government wanted to meet the demands of the EU Commission.

National allocation plans in Austria

In Austria, the NAP was regulated by the Emissions Certificate Act.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (Ed.): National Allocation Plan for the Federal Republic of Germany 2005–2007 . March 13, 2004 ( bund.de [PDF; 402 kB ]).
  2. ↑ NAPS of the federal states, German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt)
  3. ↑ Second national allocation plan ( memento of the original dated February 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmu.de