Template:M summ EUA Annex (d)(i)(1)

Who pays what, where and to whom, for Option and Forward Transactions.

The JC is no great fan of definitions, but god only knows they would have come in handy here. You know, a “Payment Amount” for Forward Transactions, and a “Strike Amount” for Option Transactions might have been nice, given they are the two key concepts in Options and Forward Transactions. As for Allowances to be Delivered — okay, there is at least a term for the physical half of that, but it’s rubbish. What about “Delivery Amount”?

Well, the JC has introduced these words into the nutshell summary to make life a bit easier to follow. Just remember they are not there in the real thing. Unless you put them in.

Cash Settlement: Trick question. There is no provision for cash-settlement under the ISDA Emissions Annex. Will that stop counterparties asking you to specify a settlement method? Probably not. Does it matter? Also probably not. What if you want a cash settlement option? Not out of the ballpark — ones eligibility for EMIR, and as such hedge exempotions, might depend on whether the forward is cash settlable, in theory, or not. There is no good reason for this: it springs from the paranoid brow of those toiler legal counsel who trying to parse the eligibility or Emissions derivatives under the refitted delegated regulations of MiFID 2 — our advice is just don’t go there — but you just never know.