What changed, Commission Regulation (EU) No 389/2013 of 2 May 2013 establishing a Union Registry pursuant to Directive 2003/…

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− | (1) | ‘account holder’ means a natural or legal person that holds an account in the registries system; |
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− | (2) | ‘central administrator’ means the person designated by the Commission pursuant to Article 20 of Directive 2003/87/EC; |
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− | (3) | ‘competent authority’ means the authority or authorities designated by a Member State pursuant to Article 18 of Directive 2003/87/EC; |
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− | (4) | ‘external trading platform’ means any type of multilateral exchange that brings together or facilitates the bringing together of multiple third-party buying and selling interests as defined in Article 4 of Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (14), where the int…
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− | (5) | ‘verifier’ means a verifier as defined in Article 3(3) of Commission Regulation (EU) No 600/2012 (15); |
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− | (6) | ‘assigned amount units’ (‘AAUs’) means units issued pursuant to Article 7(3) of Decision No 280/2004/EC; |
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− | (7) | ‘aviation allowances’ means allowances created pursuant to Article 3c(2) of Directive 2003/87/EC; |
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− | (8) | ‘general allowances’ means all other allowances created pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC; |
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− | (9) | ‘long-term certified emission reductions (‘lCERs’) means units issued for an afforestation or reforestation project activity under the clean development mechanism (‘CDM’) which, subject to Decision 5/CMP.1 of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Pr…
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− | (10) | ‘removal units’ (‘RMUs’) means units issued pursuant to the relevant provisions in the annex to Decision 13/CMP.1; |
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− | (11) | ‘temporary certified emission reductions’ (‘tCERs’) means units issued for an afforestation or reforestation project activity under the CDM which, subject to Decision 5/CMP.1, expire at the end of the Kyoto Protocol commitment period following the one during which they were issued; |
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− | (12) | ‘Kyoto units’ means AAUs, emission reduction units (‘ERUs’), certified emission reductions (‘CERs’), RMUs, lCERs and tCERs. |
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+ ## *CHAPTER 1* / ***Subject matter, scope and definitions***
+ ### Article 1 — Subject matter
+ ### Article 2 — Scope
+ ### Article 3 — Definitions
+ (1) ‘account holder’ means a natural or legal person that holds an account in the registries system;
+ (2) ‘central administrator’ means the person designated by the Commission pursuant to Article 20 of Directive 2003/87/EC;
+ (3) ‘competent authority’ means the authority or authorities designated by a Member State pursuant to Article 18 of Directive 2003/87/EC;
+ (4) ‘external trading platform’ means any type of multilateral exchange that brings together or facilitates the bringing together of multiple third-party buying and selling interests as defined in Article 4 of Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (14), where the interes…
+ (5) ‘verifier’ means a verifier as defined in Article 3(3) of Commission Regulation (EU) No 600/2012 (15);
+ (6) ‘assigned amount units’ (‘AAUs’) means units issued pursuant to Article 7(3) of Decision No 280/2004/EC;
+ (7) ‘aviation allowances’ means allowances created pursuant to Article 3c(2) of Directive 2003/87/EC;
+ (8) ‘general allowances’ means all other allowances created pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC;
+ (9) ‘long-term certified emission reductions (‘lCERs’) means units issued for an afforestation or reforestation project activity under the clean development mechanism (‘CDM’) which, subject to Decision 5/CMP.1 of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protoc…
+ (10) ‘removal units’ (‘RMUs’) means units issued pursuant to the relevant provisions in the annex to Decision 13/CMP.1;
+ (11) ‘temporary certified emission reductions’ (‘tCERs’) means units issued for an afforestation or reforestation project activity under the CDM which, subject to Decision 5/CMP.1, expire at the end of the Kyoto Protocol commitment period following the one during which they were issued;
+ (12) ‘Kyoto units’ means AAUs, emission reduction units (‘ERUs’), certified emission reductions (‘CERs’), RMUs, lCERs and tCERs.
+ (13) ‘process’ means an automated technical means to carry out an action relating to an account, a unit or a portion of the credit entitlement in a registry;
+ (14) ‘transaction’ means a process in the Union registry that includes the transfer of an allowance, a Kyoto unit, an annual emission allocation unit or a portion of the credit entitlement from one account to another account;
+ (15) ‘surrender’ means the accounting of an allowance by an operator or aircraft operator against the verified emissions of its installation or aircraft;
+ (16) ‘cancellation’ means the definitive disposal of a Kyoto unit by its holder without accounting it against verified emissions;
+ (17) ‘deletion’ means the definitive disposal of an allowance by its holder without accounting it against verified emissions;
+ (18) ‘retirement’ means the accounting of a Kyoto unit by a party to the Kyoto Protocol against the reported emissions of that Party;
+ (19) ‘money laundering’ means money laundering as defined in Article 1(2) of Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and the Council (16);
+ (20) ‘serious crime’ means serious crime as defined in point (5) of Article 3 of Directive 2005/60/EC;
+ (21) ‘terrorist financing’ means terrorist financing as defined in Article 1(4) of Directive 2005/60/EC;
+ (22) ‘national administrator’ means the entity responsible for administering on behalf of a Member State a set of user accounts under the jurisdiction of a Member State in the Union Registry, designated in accordance with Article 8;
+ (23) ‘directors’ means the persons effectively directing the day-to-day operations of a legal person
+ (24) ‘Central European Time’ means Central European Summer Time during the summer-time period as defined in Articles 1, 2 and 3 of Directive 2000/84/EC;
+ (25) ‘national administrative platform’ means an external system operated by a national administrator or a competent authority that is securely connected to the Union Registry for the purposes of automating functions related to the administering of accounts and of compliance obligations in the Union…
+ (26) ‘international credits’ means CERs, ERUs and credits from projects or other emission reducing activities which may be used pursuant to Article 11a(5) of Directive 2003/87/EC;