Member States' use of revenues from the auctioning of EU ETS allowances, 2020-2024

This metadata overs the dataset containing information on how EU Member States spend the revenues from auctioning EU ETS emission allowances in one calendar year. More information on the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) can be found here. The revenues from the auctioning of these allowances represent an increasing income source for Member States.

This data is being collected under Article 19 of the Governance Regulation. The Regulation’s aim is to help the EU reach its 2030 climate and energy targets by setting common rules for planning, reporting and monitoring. The Regulation also ensures that EU planning and reporting are synchronised with the ambition cycles under the Paris Agreement. Reporting is mandatory for EU Member States. Some information is only mandatory to report if the data is available.

Identification info

Date (Creation): 2025-10-24

Date (Publication)

Date (Publication): 2026-01-22

Edition: 01.00

Citation identifier: eea_t_revenues-ms-auctioning-allowances_p_2020-2024_v01_r00

Identifier

Code: 10.2909/656de8d1-e808-483c-90b5-38578e980d42

Codespace: doi.org

Description: Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Point of contact

Organisation	Individual	Electronic mail address	Website	Role
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu	http://www.eea.europa.eu	Publisher
European Environment Agency				Custodian

Topic category

Environment

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period: 2020-01-01 2024-12-31

GEMET

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

Reporting obligations

Use of ETS auctioning revenues - GovReg

EEA Management Plan

2025 EEA/DATA/2025/076

EEA topics

Resource constraints

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Language: English

Additional Information

Up to 2023, the EU ETS Directive provides that Member States should use at least 50% of auctioning revenues (or the equivalent in financial value) for climate and energy-related activities. In the revised EU ETS Directive adopted in 2023 (EU ETS Directive (2023/959), the Member States are now requested to spend 100% of auctioning revenues on climate and energy related activities, except for any revenue spent in aid for indirect carbon costs. EU ETS revenues do not need to be spent within the EU, but Member States can also use them to support developing countries (on climate mitigation, adaptation, capacity-building or knowledge transfer).

For data covering 2022 and previous years, details on the format and method for data collection are defined in Annex II of the Implementing regulation 2020/1208. With the adoption of the revised EU ETS, the reporting has evolved to provide more accurate information for monitoring the use of auctioning revenue in the Member States. For data related to years 2023 and onwards, Member States shall report on the amounts and the use of auctioning revenues according to the Implementing regulation 2024/1281 (Annex II).

The Member States submit their data to the European Environment Agency (EEA) via the online platform Reportnet 3. The data is then quality-checked by the DG CLIMA at the European Commission. DG CLIMA also performs aggregation of the data and complements them with other sources.

More information is available in the statistical metadata on this dataflow included in the download of the dataset.