29 May 2006: Experience Exchange Meeting with the new Member States representatives is scheduled for 14 June 2006 in Brussels

The project group “Capacity Building for the New Member States” is planning most probably a 1:30 - 2:00 hours meeting with the new Member States representatives on the Capacity Building project during the WG3 meeting on June 14. The aim would be to share experiences and recommendations with the (New) Member States, European Commission and the Project group (Capacity Building for the New Member States). Further details about location and time schedule will be published on this web-site. Fore further information you can send a mail to euets@BGP.nl

Bratislava, 20 May 2006: Consultation Day

Slovakia’s industry emits 17% less than the emissions caps allocated by the National Allocation Plan. Upon submission of the verified emission reports by the Slovak operators under the EU-ETS, it resulted that the total emissions in 2005 were significantly less than the total volume of allocated EUAs. This fact was a key issue raised by the Slovak industries participating to the Consultation Day that took place earlier this week in Bratislava. Large Slovak enterprises from the petrochemical, energy and other sectors discussed this and other issues with the team of experts from BGP Engineers and TuV Rheinland. The meetings were hosted by the Slovak Ministry of Environment and took place in the framework of the Capacity Building project.

Budapest, 15 May 2006: Industry Consultation Day

Last week the Industry Consultation Day took place in Budapest. The day was organized by the project team in the framework of the EC's Capacity Building project. The consultation Day was hosted by the Hungarian Environmental Inspectorate. Three experts from BGP Engineers and TuV Rheinland were consulted by a number of Hungarian enterprises on subjects related to the Emissions Trading Scheme. The recent price fall on the emission market had caused many questions among enterprises on how and when to become active in trading. Several enterprises were also questioning about the policies of Hungary and the EC on how the NAP-2 would be defined and what allowances would be assigned to the enterprises during the 2008-2012 period.

From the meetings it became evident that most enterprises went quite well through the emissions verification process, although the available time was very limited. Costs of the verification was, in general, considered to be acceptable.

2 May 2006: EU Emissions Trading Directive operators consulting day, May 15th 2006.

BGP is organizing an operators Consulting day on May 15th, 2006 in Budapest, Hungary. The day offers an informal private setting in which operators can ask/discuss any specific issues related to the EU Emissions Trading Directive to a team of experts. The consultation is entirely non-obligatory and free of charge. Consultation Day is open to any operator which is connected to the Hungarian Emission Trading System. Further details about the Consultation day is published on this site.

1 May 2006: National Conference on Emissions Trading Directive in Warsaw, 25 April, 2006.

National Seminar on Emissions Trading Directive in Warsaw. On 25 April 2006 at the Ministry of Environment a national seminar was held with participants from all over the country. Officials from the Regions and Counties including the environmental inspectorates were present. The seminar was organized in the framework of the European Commission's Capacity Building programme. The Polish Ministry of Environment opened the seminar by addressing the key issues and challenges for the Polish industry. International experts from the Netherlands Ministry of Environment and the UK Environmental Agency have presented experiences from the first year of the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme. Furthermore, experts from BGP, TuV and MOB have informed the participants on a wide range of subjects, including the ETS Regulatory framework, principles on Monitoring & Reporting, Verification and several other issues.
The stakeholders have particularly appreciated the exchange of experiences presented by the experts from the four Member States present at the seminar. For more details, see website.

24 April 2006: EU Emissions Trading Directive operators consulting day, May 16th 2006

The day offers an informal private setting in which operators can ask/discuss any specific issues related to the EU Emissions Trading Directive to a team of experts. The consultation is entirely non-obligatory and free of charge. Consultation Day is open to any operator which is connected to the Slovakian Emission Trading System. Further details about the Consultation day is published on this website, see workshops.

11 April 2006: Conference programme Poland available

The conference programme for the permit issuing authorities from the 16 voivodeships, inspectors and verifiers from Poland is available on this website under “Workshops”. The workshop is scheduled on April 25th at the Ministry of Environment.

29 March 2006: Conference/workshop Poland

The planned CO2 workshop in Warsaw and Krakow for the Polish’s operators is till further noticed postponed. Instead, there will be an one day conference/workshop for the permit issuing authorities from the 16 viovodeships, inspectors and verifiers from Poland. The workshop is planned on April 25th at the ministry. Further details about the conference/workshop, will be published on this website.

24 March 2006: EC ok’s Hungarian Registry hook-up

The European Commission gave its approval to connect the Hungarian CO2 registry to the Community International Transaction Log.
Source: Point Carbon, 24 March 2006

13 March 2006: Poland accredits three emissions verifiers. The Polish institute of environmental protection (IOS) has accredited three companies to verify the CO2 emissions of the 1,100 installations covered by the EU emissions trading scheme (ETS).

IOS today announced that BSI Management Systems, DNV Poland and NIS ZERT Polska have been accredited status as verifiers of CO2 emissions under the EU ETS. All the companies covered by the EU ETS must submit verified 2005 emissions reports for its installations to the government by 31 March. The European Commission will publish all the verified reports across Europe on 15 May.

Poland got in place the legislative framework for accrediting verifiers in February, and has now moved to authorize three of the appliers. No information is available on whether more are set to follow.

The Polish government, meanwhile, approved a decree last week that sets out guidelines for the information that Polish operators must supply ahead of the second-phase allocation plan. Companies must submit emissions data and activity projections to the ministry of environment by 30 March.
Source: Point Carbon, 13 March 2006

2 March 2006: Slovakia to allow use of CDM end JI credits

A last-minute change to the legislation transposing the European linking directive into Slovakian law has seen the government perform a U-turn and allow CDM and JI credits to be used for compliance purposes in the EU ETS.
Point Carbon, 2 March 2006

16 February 2006: Poland in race against time

Poland in race against time on verification Poland has yet to certify a single emissions verifier only six weeks ahead of the European Commission’s deadline for ETS companies for submitting verified CO2 emissions reports for 2005.
Point Carbon, 15 February 2006

2 February 2006: ETS Seminar in Poland

BGP is organizing a seminar in Poland for the national authorities, Operators and Verifiers on EU-Emissions Trading System. The seminar will take place in Warsaw on April 11 and 12 and in Krakow on April 13th. Further details about the seminar (program, location and registration instruction) will be published on this website.

17 January 2006: Expert Consult

The EU-ETS project group is intended to organise a number of extra meeting in the some New Member States especially for the operators. The set-up will be as following: all operators will be invited to apply for an individual meeting with the team experts, where they can raise any issues of relevant to the Emission Trading System and Monitoring and Reporting Guidance. The duration of the meeting will be 30 minutes. At least one week before the meeting, the participant have to submit a short description about the issues they want to discus with the project experts. Meeting is free of charge and participation is limited. Further information about data’s, location, country, etc. will be published on this website. Please use for any question/remarks the following mail address:

EUETS@BGP.nl

27 January 2006: Workshop Poland

A delegation from the Ministry of Environment has visit the EC on 12/13 January. They had a constructive meeting with the EC. The good news is that the Polish government has made substantial progress with the implementation of the Emissions Trading Directive. Things are moving and the postponed workshops will take place somewhere in March/April. Further details about the workshops, will be published on this website.

4 January 2006: Polish Cabinet Approved NAP

Just before end 2005, the Polish government approved the country’s National Allocation Plan and has quantified a list of temporary installations. In total, 239 millions tonnes CO2 will be allocated yearly between 2005 and 2007. The polish registry is still offline. Poland's plan is one of the four largest in the 25-nation bloc
and covers more than 1,100 installations. EU decisions prompting Warsaw to reduce its national limit from initial proposals have moved the European secondary market in emissions.
Planer Ark, POLAND: December 29, 2005

26 November 2005: Participants from all Baltic States on Seminar on Emissions Trading Directive in Riga

RIGA (Latvia) - On 24 and 25 November the third EU-ETS Seminar on the Emissions Trading Directive took place at the Riga Latvia Hotel in the centre of the town. Over 50 participants came from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and represented both the Baltic States governments and the private sectors in the three countries.

Competent Authorities have met on the seminar's first workshop and exchanged experiences on the implementation of the EU ET Directive in their countries. Other issues that were discussed:

- status of the accreditation of verifiers
- status of the implementation of the Linking Directive
- understanding and knowledge on the Monitoring and Reporting Guideline among operators of installations

The presentations held by the project team were appreciated by the audience. On the second day, lively discussions were developed with the over 40 representatives from the Baltic industry. The seminar was concluded with information exchange on a wide range of practical issues related to the Registries, the submission of Monitoring Reports and Emission Trade.