14.10.2010 Official Journal of the European Union L 270/1 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 920/2010 of 7 October 2010 for a standardised and secured system of registries pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Decision No 280/2004/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, (2 Article 19(1) of Directive 2003/87/EC establishing greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community (hereinafter ETS) requires that all allowances are held in the Union registry on accounts managed by Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European the Member States. In order to ensure that Kyoto units Union, and allowances can be held on the same Union registry accounts, the Union registry must also conform to the functional and technical specifications for data exchange standards for registry systems under the Kyoto Protocol, Having regard to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European adopted by Decision 12/CMP.1, Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a system for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC ('), and in particular Article 19 thereof, ) o ) ) (3)  Article 20 of Directive 2003/87EC requires that an inde- pendent transaction log (hereinafter European Union Transaction Log or EUTL) recording the issue, transfer Having regard to Decision No 280/2004/EC of the European anq cancellation ) _Of allowances s estz.lbhshed. Parliament and of the Council of 11 February 2004 concerning Artlcle 6(2) of Decision No 28_0/ 2004/EC requires Fhat a mechanism for monitoring Community greenhouse gas mformat}on on the. issue, holding, .transfer, acqu151t19n, emissions and for implementing the Kyoto Protocol (3), and in cancellation .and W}th.drawal of .a551gne.(i amount u.n}ts, particular the first subparagraph, second sentence, Article 6(1) remoYal units, emission reduction units and Celitlﬁed thereof emission reductions and the carryover of assigned ’ amount units, emission reduction units and certified emission reductions is made available to the transaction log. Having consulted the European Data Protection Supervisor, 4 Article 19(3) of Directive 2003/87/EC requires that a Whereas: regulation for a standardised and secured system of registries in the form of standardised electronic databases containing common data elements to track the issue, holding, transfer and cancellation of (1) Article 6 of Decision No 280/2004/EC requires the allowances, to provide for public access and confiden- Union and its Member States to apply the functional tiality as appropriate and to ensure that there are no and technical specifications for data exchange standards transfers which are incompatible with the obligations for registry systems under the Kyoto Protocol, adopted resulting from the Kyoto Protocol is drawn up. by Decision 12/CMP.1 of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (hereinafter Decision 12/CMP.1), for the establishment and operation of registries and the CITL. (5)  Each registry established in accordance with Article 6 of () O] L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 32. () O] L 49, 19.2.2004, p. 1. Decision No 280/2004/EC should contain at least one Party holding account, one retirement account, and the