Article 1
Open ↗A derogation is granted to the Republic of Poland from Article 22(4), point (b) of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 as regards the emission limit for the existing capacity mechanism approved by the Commission before 4 July 2019, subject to the following conditions: (a) Poland amends the NRAA to take into account the issues described in recital (145) above. In particular, the NRAA shall: (i) estimate the amount of electricity to be exported by Poland in the future on the basis of the result of a modelling exercise and using reasonable assumptions; and (ii) estimate the likelihood of retirement, mothballing and new-build of generation assets on the basis of estimated revenues and costs over a period of 10 years, rather than for a single year; and (iii) justify the assumptions on the maintenance patterns on the basis of actual maintenance schedules and explain how those patterns relate to the estimates in the NRAA in order to demonstrate that they constitute a national specificity of the Polish generator fleet; (b) the Polish NRA verifies whether the total amount of capacity to be procured under the updated NRAA is justified and, in particular, whether it reflects the needs of the system in situations of simultaneous scarcity.