Accounts

Operator Holding Account (OHA)

The Operator Holding Account is the “main” account, i.e. the transaction account which the operator uses for compliance purposes. It is the account on which the operator receives his allocated allowances and the account from which he proposes his verified emissions and surrenders his allowances. The account may also be used for transfers or trading.

A statutory account representative of the operator has to apply for an OHA by the NEa and appoint a 1^st and 2^nd account representative. Changes can be transferred to the NEa with a change form. There will be no fee charged to open an OHA

Person Holding Account (PHA)

A Person Holding Account may be opened by an operator, an organisation or an individual. The account may opened by an operator as a trading account, but cannot be used for compliance purposes.

To open a PHA the NEa charge a once-only fee of 100 euro. After receiving the fee the NEa the account will be opened

You can extend the service level of your Operator Holding Account (OHA) or Person Holding Account (PHA) by opening a Premium Account.

Overview of the accounts

An overview of the accounts and associated authorised legal entities in the NL Registry can be generated on the website of the Community Independent Transaction Log from the EU.

Guideline to generate the overview:

• Choose 'Netherlands' (between Norway and Oman) in the drop down list behind 'registry'.
• Click 'search'
  Behind the 'details' button, more detailed information about the selected account (name and contact details of the account holder and account representatives) is displayed.
• Behind 'account type', you can limit the list of accounts by selecting certain types. The most important types are:
  100: national holding accounts from NL as a Kyoto party;
  120: operator holding accounts from EU-ETS installations;
  121: person holding accounts from organisations/persons without obligations under emissions trading;
  230: cancellation accounts for (voluntary) cancellation of allowances;
  300: retirement account to fulfil the obligation to surrender allowances.