The European Union plans this or next month to open a tender for a transitional platform to carry out sales of carbon allowances for airlines and early auctions of post-2012 permits for manufacturers and power plants.
The timing of the tender will keep the 27-nation bloc on track to start early auctions of allowances for the next phase of the EU emissions trading system in the second half of this year, the European Commission, the bloc’s regulatory arm, said in an e-mailed response to Bloomberg questions.
