The European Emissions Trading System EU-ETS

Climate change has been recognized as one of the biggest challenges facing countries, businesses and citizens. The global community is increasingly recognizing the need for climate action. In response to this challenge, international, national and local initiatives are being developed and implemented to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere.
The EU ETS is the cornerstone of EU policy to combat climate change and the key tool for cost-effectively reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It is the first major coal market in the world and remains the largest.

Due businesses include combustion plants above 20 MW, plants belonging to various industries (e.g. cement production, oil refining, etc.), aviation, and maritime.

EUROCERT is a Greek independent certification body, accredited by Greek and International Accreditation Bodies with activity in more than 45 countries internationally. EUROCERT has highly trained and qualified verifiers with great expertise and experience in their field. In particular, EUROCERT has gained recognition in the field by carrying out verifications in large companies as early as 2006 and the launch of the European Emissions Trading System. The EUROCERT verification body accredited according to EN ISO/IEC 17029:2019 and EN ISO 14065:2020 carries out verifications both in Greece and in other EU countries under the current EU-ETS legislation and the regulatory documents that govern it, in particular taking into account the respective national implementation in the countries in which the liable enterprise is located.