Romania will benefit from 71.4 million allowances during the mentioned interval, the ministry said.
Apart from Romania, two other EU members — the Czech Republic and Bulgaria — were granted last week permission to allocate free carbon dioxide (CO2) emission certificates to power producers between 2013 and 2019. In May the Commission authorized requests from Cyprus, Estonia and Lithuania.
“In total, more than 268 million allowances will be allocated for free to power plants in these six countries in the period 2013 to 2019. The number will be reduced each year, reaching zero in 2020,” the Commission said in a statement.