A new amendment to the Auctioning Regulation - see: Commission Regulation No 1143/2013 of 13 November 2013 amending Regulation (EU) No 1031/2010 on the timing, administration and other aspects of auctioning of greenhouse gas emission allowances pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowances trading within the Community in particular to list an auction platform to be appointed by Germany (OJ L 303, 14.11.2013, p. 10).
On the occasion of regulating the status of EEX as an auction platform several other changes have been made to the Auctioning Regulation. Among them are:
- Technical adaptations necessary due to current delays in auction monitor appointment: additions in places providing for the auction monitor competences of the phrase: "if appointed" (new Article 7, paragraph 7, Article 8, paragraph 3 of the Auctioning Regulation). - Changes in the publication of the auction calendar: auction platform should determine and publish the bidding windows, individual volumes, auction dates as well as the auctioned product, payment and delivery dates of emission allowances to be auctioned in individual auctions each calendar year, by 30 September (instead of 28 February in the earlier text) of the previous year (amendment to Article 11, paragraph 11 of the Auctioning Regulation). - Clarification on the relation of the admission to the auctions and becoming a member of or a participant in the secondary market: admission to the auctions must not be dependent on becoming a member of or a participant in the secondary market organised by the auction platform or any other trading place operated by the auction platform or by any third party (Article 16, paragraph 1a of the Auctioning Regulation).
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