Confidentiality

All information held in the Austrian part of the Union Registry, including the holdings of all accounts and all transactions made, shall be considered confidential for any purpose other than the implementation of the requirements of the European Registry Regulation 389/2013 and (EU) 2019/1122, the Emissions Trading Directive (EC) 2003/87 and the Austrian Act on Emissions Allowance Trading (Emissionszertifikategesetz - EZG) and its regulations.

The following entities may obtain data stored in the Union Registries and the European Union Transaction Log (EUTL):

(a) the law enforcement and tax authorities of a Member State;

(b) the European Anti-fraud Office of the European Commission;

(c) the European Court of Auditors;

(d) Eurojust,

(e) the competent authorities referred to in Article 11 of Directive (EC) 2003/6 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1) and in Article 37 (1) of Directive (EC) 2005/60,

(f) competent national supervisory authorities,

(g) the national administrators of Member States and the competent authorities referred to in Article 18 of Directive (EC) 2003/87.

The competent authority (Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology) and the national administrator (Umweltbundesamt) shall only perform processes concerning allowances, verified emissions, automatic NAP table changes, accounts and Kyoto units where necessary to carry out their functions as competent authority or national administrator.

The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 applies to all data processings.

The data protection requirements are implemented by the European Commission in accordance with the Registry Regulations (EU) 389/2013 and 2019/1122. Personal data shall be stored for fighting serious crimes for a maximum period of 10 years and have to be deleted afterwards.