The European Union plans this or next month to open a tender for a transitional platform to carry out sales of carbon allowances for airlines and early auctions of post-2012 permits for manufacturers and power plants. The timing of the tender will keep the 27-nation bloc on track to start early auctions of allowances for the next phase of the EU emissions trading system in the second half of this year, the European Commission, the bloc’s regulatory arm, said in an e-mailed response to Bloomberg questions. “The commission seeks to get approval of the tender documents by the member states and launch the tender for the transitional common auction platform in January or February,” it said. “As a next step, the commission aims at launching the tender for the single auction monitor soon after the launch of the tender for the transitional common auction platform.” The EU emissions trading system, known as the ETS, is moving toward selling a greater proportion of allowances in the next eight-year trading period starting in 2013 after giving most permits to companies for free since 2005. The world’s biggest cap-and-trade program expanded this year to include the aviation industry, which is due to buy a part of its allocation at auctions.
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