Carbon leakage and competitiveness assessment.

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Directive 2003/87/EC as amended in 2009 (ETS Directive) requires the Commission to determine by 31.12.2009 and every 5 years thereafter a list of sectors or subsectors deemed to be exposed to a significant risk of carbon leakage on the basis of the criteria referred to in Article 10(a) of the ETS Directive. The Commission has established the general methodology on the occasion of the first carbon leakage list adopted in 2009 (Commission Decision 2010/2/EU) which applies for the years 2013 and 2014. In order to be able to determine a list which will apply for the years 2015–2019, the Commission will need to review the list in due time taking into account updated information. Since the criteria for including a certain sector or subsector in the carbon leakage list are outlined in the ETS Directive, the assessment of sectors for the determination of the second carbon leakage list (valid for the years 2015–2019) will be done based on the same criteria as for the first carbon leakage list and the annual additions. According to the Directive, data to be used are from the 3 most recent years at the time of the data collection. The methodology, and certain assumptions, used to determine the first list may however require some amendments.