22.6.2015   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 205/18


Request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State (Netherlands) lodged on 3 April 2015 — Elektriciteits Produktiemaatschappij Zuid-Nederland NV v het bestuur van de Nederlandse Emissieautoriteit

(Case C-158/15)

(2015/C 205/25)

Language of the case: Dutch

Referring court

Raad van State

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Elektriciteits Produktiemaatschappij Zuid-Nederland NV

Other party: het bestuur van de Nederlandse Emissieautoriteit

Questions referred

1.

Does a situation such as the present, where coal is stored in a coal park where CO2 emissions occur as a result of self-heating, where the centre of the coal park is about 800 meters distant from the edge of the coal-fired power plant, where the two sites are separated from each other by a public road and where the coal is transported from the storage site to the power plant by means of a conveyor belt passing over the road, fall within the scope of the term ‘installation’ as referred to in Article 3(e) of Directive 2003/87/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC?

2.

Does ‘fuel exported from the installation’ in Article 27(2) of Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 (2) of 21 June 2012 on the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council refer to a situation such as the present, where coal is lost during storage in the coal park due to combustion resulting from self-heating?


(1)  OJ 2003 L 275, p. 32.

(2)  OJ 2012 L 181, p. 30.