Union Registry data

EU ETS installations

In 2025, 7,578 stationary installations in the EU ETS reported 937,112,736 tonnes of verified emissions and received 437,085,867 free allowances. Browse by country or activity to see each installation's record.

Installations reporting

7,578

Verified emissions, 2025

937,112,736 t

Free allocation, 2025

437,085,867

EU allowance price

€85.50

Source: European Commission, Union Registry · Data as of 1 April 2026 · Price: latest EU ETS primary auction, 25 September 2026

By country, 2025

By activity, 2025

CBAM context

The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism covers iron and steel, cement, aluminium, fertilisers and hydrogen. Free allocation for products covered by the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is being reduced each year under current EU law.

Free allocation remaining for CBAM-covered products, by year
202620272028202920302031203220332034
97.5%95%90%77.5%51.5%39%26.5%14%0%

Share of free allocation remaining for CBAM-covered products, under Directive (EU) 2023/959, Article 10a. It applies to the benchmarks for those products, not necessarily to an installation's whole allocation, so it is not applied to the figures on this page.

Proposed change

A European Commission proposal of 17 July 2026 would restore 15% of the phased-out free allocation for CBAM sectors from 2028 and extend the end of the phase-out from 2034 to 2038. This is a proposal and not yet law.

More on CBAM: the India CBAM Center and what CBAM is and how it works.

Questions

Where do these figures come from?

From the European Commission's Union Registry, which publishes each installation's verified emissions and free allocation every spring and its compliance status every autumn. They are read directly from the Commission's files.

What is the allowance position?

Verified emissions minus free allocation for the latest year. A positive number is the allowances an installation had to obtain beyond its free allocation; a negative one means allocation exceeded emissions.

When is the surrender deadline?

Operators surrender allowances covering the previous year's verified emissions by 30 September. The compliance code on each installation page records whether they did.

Stationary installations only; aircraft and maritime operators are not listed yet. Years from 2013, because the Commission notes that earlier years are not comparable after the change of scope in 2013. The current EU carbon price is on EU ETS live.