The Union Registry
According to EU directive 2003/87/EG, each Member State is required to establish and operate a national registry for transactions of allowances in the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). From June 2012, the EU uses a common IT platform for the national registries of the trading system, the so-called Union Registry.
The Union Registry stores data on:
- Accounts for Member States, companies and natural persons who have commitments or hold allowances and international reduction units.
Unit types - All unit transfers to and from the accounts in the registry. There are different types of transfers: issuance of allowances, free allocation, auctioning, transfers between accounts, surrenders and removal of units. The Union Registry also stores data on transfers for the National Registries under the Kyoto Protocol. See Transaction types for more information about different types of transfers. You can also read more about international emissions trading.
Transaction types
International emissions trading - National allocation tables which indicate allowances allocated to installations and aircraft operators.
- Verified emissions and surrendered allowances from all installations and aircraft operators covered by the ETS.
Verified emissions and surrender
According to the Registry Regulation, the Commission must ensure that the Union Registry stores data on all processes, records and account holders for five years after the closure of an account. Personal data for users in the registry is anonymised five years after a user has had the access to the registry revoked.
The Union Registry also contains Sweden’s National Registry under the Kyoto Protocol, where the national commitment is registered. From 2013 onwards, the Union Registry also contains the registry for emissions reporting according to the Effort Sharing Decision.
The registry only lists completed transfers between two parties. The companies administer their allowances and Kyoto units themselves and, in the case of a sale, it is the seller who transfers allowances from his to the buyer’s account. Contracts or prices are never registered in the Union Registry.
National Administrator
The Swedish Energy Agency has been appointed by national law as national administrator, which means that we administer all data and support in the Swedish section of the Union Registry.