For allocation of allowances for greenhouse gas emissions trading for participation of bulgaria in the european greenhouse gas emission

Operating installations that have placed into service an expansion which increases their capacity with more than 10% and have done so after 01.01.2009 but before 30.09.2009, fulfil the definition for New entrant (see section 5.1). Those installations receive allowances in this Allocation plan based on the methodology for allocation of allowances to New entrants from the New entrants reserve. The method of determining the allowances for this group of new entrants is presented in section 5.2.2. A list of these installations and the allowances issued following the rules for new entrants are provided in table P.3.1, Appendix 3.

Appendix 1 provides full list of the installations, holding emissions permit and in operation during the period 2007-2008, and the New entrant installations holding permit or updated permit and in operation during the period 01.01.2009-30.09.2009. The list presents also the amount of allocated allowances to these installations. For the New entrant installations with updated permit, the total quantity of allowances in the table is given as the sum of the allowances for the expansions/new capacities of the installation and for the old sections and capacities of the installation.

As a result of the application of the Methodology, distributing the total quantity of allowances permitted for the country evenly per year within the period, follow certain variations in the degree of installations’ base emission reduction towards installations’ allocated allowances for the period 2010-2012. This is manifested in:

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  sharp decrease in the allowances allocated for each installation for 2009 and especially for 2010 due to the planned inauguration of new installations;
  
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  increase in the allowances for installations for 2012 due to the planned phasing out of exploitation of one installation („BRIKEL”) and half of another installation (Thermal Power Plant “BOBOV DOL”).
  

The country does not consider it necessary to smooth these variations since this will make the methodology more complicated and non-transparent. Since the installations may use part of the allowances from the next calendar year at the accounting for the prior one, these variations do not have an effect on their operation.

3.2. If historical data have been used, please state whether these have been defined in accordance with the Commission’s monitoring and reporting guidelines for the purposes of Article 14 of the Directive, or any other guidelines, and/or whether such data have been subjected to independent verification.

The allocation of allowances in this Plan is based on the verified annual reports for 2007 and 2008 of the operators of the installations participating in the European GHG emissions Trading Scheme. The reports from monitoring of the emissions provided by the installations are prepared according to the Plans for monitoring, which are part of the GHG emissions permits issued to the installations. These plans for monitoring are prepared according to the Comissions’ guidelines for monitoring and reporting of GHG emissions by the operators of the installations following under the scope of Directive 2003/87/ЕC.

3.3. If any early action or clean technology has been taken into account at this level, please state so here and provide further detail under Section 4.2 or 4.3 below.

Neither early actions, not clean technologies are taken into account.