CDM Registry

Permanent holding accounts

Following further guidance provided by the EB, the CDM registry also allows project participants registered in a CDM project activity with authorisation from a Non-Annex I Party to open a holding account where CERs, lCERs and tCERs can be received for the subsequent forwarding of those units to the holding accounts of project participants with authorisation from an Annex I Party. (http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/cop10/02.pdf paragraph 58).

Permanent holding accounts can only receive CERs from the Pending account of the CDM registry and from any CDM project activity in which the account holder is registered as a participant with an authorisation of the same Non-Annex I Party.

Units (CERs, lCERs or tCERs) being held in a permanent holding account can only be forwarded to the holding accounts of entities registered as participants in the CDM project activities that originated those units and with an authorisation (LOA) from an Annex I Party (temporary holding accounts or national registry holding accounts).

See section Application for a holding account in the CDM registry for more information on how to open a holding account in the CDM registry. The procedure and requirements are the same for both, temporary holding accounts and permanent holding accounts.