Template:IETA Master Agreement 5

5. Allowance Transfers
5.1 Primary Obligation

5.1(a) In relation to a Transaction, the Delivering Party agrees to sell and Transfer and the Receiving Party agrees to purchase and accept the Period Traded Allowances in accordance with its terms, subject to and in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the EU ETS Rules.

5.1(b) In respect of a Confirmation a Party shall specify the information listed in (i) to (v) below. If more than one Delivery Date is specified in a Confirmation and, in respect of each such Delivery Date:

(i) an Allowance Type;

(ii) an Allowance Price;

(iii) a PTA Quantity;

(iv) a Specified Period; and

(v) Payment Due Date,

are specified in that Confirmation or are otherwise capable of being determined with certainty from the terms of that Confirmation, then separate Transactions shall be deemed to subsist in respect of each Transfer relating to each such Delivery Date. The terms of each such deemed Transaction, other than in relation to the Delivery Date and items (i) – (v) listed above, will be the same, unless otherwise specified in the Confirmation.

5.1(c) The Delivering Party agrees to Transfer (or procure the Transfer of) the Period Traded Allowances from any Holding Account in any Registry to the relevant Receiving Party’s Holding Account; provided, however, that if one or more Delivering Party’s Holding Accounts are specified in the Confirmation to a Transaction, the Receiving Party agrees that the Delivering Party’s obligation to Transfer Allowances under this Agreement shall be limited to an obligation to Transfer the Period Traded Allowances for the relevant Transaction from any of such Delivering Party’s Holding Account(s) to the relevant Receiving Party’s Holding Account.

Where more than one Receiving Party’s Holding Account has been specified in the Confirmation to a Transaction, such Holding Accounts are set out in order of preference for such Transaction and the Delivering Party shall Transfer Period Traded Allowances from either, as the case may be:

(i) any Holding Account; or

(ii) any Delivering Party’s Holding Account,

to the first listed Receiving Party’s Holding Account, unless in respect of such Receiving Party’s Holding Account, it is prevented from so doing by an event or circumstance that would be described under Clause 13 (Force Majeure or Suspension Event) or Clause 14.7 (Illegality) if the first listed Receiving Party’s Holding Account were the only Holding Account so listed. In such circumstances, the provisions of this paragraph will apply iteratively as though the next listed Receiving Party’s Holding Account were the first listed.

5.1(d) A Transfer shall be considered to be completed for the purposes of this Agreement when the relevant Period Traded Allowances are received in the relevant Receiving Party’s Holding Account, whereupon risk of loss related to the Period Traded Allowances or any portion of them transfers from the Delivering Party to the Receiving Party.

5.2 Sufficient Allowances. In relation to a Transaction and a PTA Quantity, the Delivering Party shall, subject to Clause 13 (Force Majeure and Suspension Event), ensure that there are sufficient transferable Allowances in the Holding Account from which the Transfer is to be effected to ensure that the Transfer Request will be accepted under the System at the time at which it is to be accepted in accordance with this Agreement.
5.3 No Encumbrances. The Delivering Party shall Transfer to the Receiving Party the Period Traded Allowances free and clear of all liens, security interests, claims and encumbrances or any interest in or to them by any person. A breach of the Delivering Party’s obligations under this Clause 5.3 (the “No Encumbrances Obligation”) will have the following consequences:

5.3(a) this Agreement and all other Transactions agreed by the Parties under this Agreement shall continue unaffected; and

5.3(b) without prejudice to any defences available to the Delivering Party (including, but not limited to, any defences of statutes of limitation or similar), following written notice of that breach from the Receiving Party to the Delivering Party (irrespective of how long after the relevant Delivery Date such notice is provided) and subject to Clause 5.3(d) below, the Receiving Party:

5.3(b)(i) shall determine the Encumbrance Loss arising from that breach (the “Encumbrance Loss Amount”) either on the date such notice is deemed to be received or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter; and

5.3(b)(ii) shall notify the Delivering Party of such Encumbrance Loss Amount due, including detailed support for its calculation.

The Receiving Party is not required to enter into Replacement Transactions in order to determine such Encumbrance Loss Amount.

5.3(c) By no later than the third (3rd) Banking Day after the later of (i) receipt of a valid invoice in connection with such Encumbrance Loss Amount and (ii) receipt of the abovementioned notice of such Encumbrance Loss Amount, the Delivering Party shall pay the Encumbrance Loss Amount to the Receiving Party, which amount shall bear interest in accordance with Clause 9.5 (Interest). Upon payment of the Encumbrance Loss Amount by the Delivering Party, the Parties shall have no further obligations in respect of that Transaction and that breach. The Receiving Party acknowledges that its exclusive remedies in respect of such breach are those set out in this Clause 5.3.

5.3(d) Where a breach of the No Encumbrances Obligation is caused by the Transfer of an Affected Allowance, the Delivering Party shall be liable for the Encumbrance Loss Amount if, at the date it first acquired, received or purchased such Affected Allowance it was not acting in good faith; otherwise, the Delivering Party shall only be liable for the Encumbrance Loss Amount if, and without prejudice to any other defences available to the Delivering Party (including, but not limited to, any defences of statutes of limitation or similar):

5.3(d)(i) the Receiving Party, whether or not the holder of such Affected Allowance, who is subject to a claim of the Original Affected Party, has, in order to resist or avoid any Encumbrance Loss Amount from arising, used its best endeavours to defend such a claim in respect of that Affected Allowance (including, if available, by relying on Article 40 of the Registries Regulation or any equivalent legal principle under its applicable national law) and was unsuccessful (other than for reasons of its own lack of good faith); or

5.3(d)(ii) the Receiving Party, whether or not the holder of such Affected Allowance, who acted in good faith in respect of its purchase of such Affected Allowance and who is subject to a claim of a third party (other than the Original Affected Party) in respect of that Affected Allowance, has used all reasonable endeavours to mitigate the Encumbrance Loss Amount.