Article 1
Open ↗Commission Regulation (EU) No 389/2013 ( 3 ) is amended as follows: (1) in Article 41, the following paragraph 4 is inserted: ‘4. Allowances which are created as from 1 January 2018 pursuant to the National Allocation Table or the international credit entitlement table of a Member State which has notified the European Council of its intention to withdraw from the Union pursuant to Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, or to be auctioned by an Auction Platform appointed by such a Member State, shall be identified by a country code and shall be made distinguishable according to the year of creation. Allowances created for 2018 shall not be identified with a country code where Union law does not yet cease to apply in that Member State by 30 April 2019 or where it is sufficiently ensured that the surrender of allowances must take place by no later than 15 March 2019 in a legally enforceable manner before the Treaties cease to apply in that Member State. The Member State concerned shall immediately after 15 March 2019 report on compliance to the Member States and the Commission.’; (2) in Article 67, the following paragraph 4 is inserted: ‘4. Allowances which have a country code pursuant to Article 41(4) may not be surrendered.’; (3) in Article 99, the following paragraphs 4 and 5 are inserted: ‘4. The Commission may instruct the central administrator to temporarily suspend the acceptance by the EUTL of relevant ETS processes from 1 January 2018 until the measures foreseen in Article 41(4), Article 67(4) and Annex XIV points 4(c) and 5(a) have been implemented. 5. The Commission may, including at the request of a Member State which has notified the European Council of its intention to withdraw from the Union pursuant to Article 50 TEU, instruct the central administrator to temporarily suspend the acceptance by the EUTL of relevant processes for that Member State relating to free allocation, auctioning and the exchange of international credits.’; (4) in Annex XIV, point 4(c) is replaced by the following: ‘(c) the amount of allowances or Kyoto units involved in the transaction, including the country code but without unique unit identification code of the allowances and the unique numeric value of the unit serial number of the Kyoto units;’; (5) in Annex XIV, point 5(a) is replaced by the following: ‘(a) current holdings of allowances and Kyoto units, including the country code but without the unique unit identification code of the allowances and the unique numeric value of the unit serial number of the Kyoto units;’.