Free allocation of general allowances
Article 48
1. The national administrator shall indicate in the national allocation table for each operator, for each year and for each legal basis set out in Annex X, whether or not an installation should receive an allocation for that year. 2. The central administrator shall ensure that the Union Registry transfers general allowances automatically from the EU Allocation Account in accordance with the relevant national allocation table to the relevant open or blocked operator holding account, having regard to the modalities of the automatic transfer specified in the data exchange and technical specifications provided for in Article 75. 3. Where an excluded operator holding account does not receive allowances under paragraph 2, allowances for the years of exclusion shall not be transferred to the account, should it be set to open status for subsequent years. 4. The central administrator shall ensure that an operator can perform transfers returning excess allowances to the EU Allocation Account where the national allocation table of a Member State has been changed pursuant to Article 47 to correct for an over allocation of allowances to the operator, and the competent authority has requested the operator to return such excess allowances. 5. The competent authority may instruct the national administrator to transfer returning excess allowances to the EU Allocation Account where the over allocation of allowances is a consequence of allocation after an operator ceased the activities carried out in the installation to which the allocation relate, without informing the competent authority.