The European Commission said it won't be releasing any 2007 verified emissions data for installations covered under the E.U. Emissions Trading Scheme Tuesday, as previously expected.
"We are in the process of receiving the data" from the states, said Barbara Helfferich, a spokeswoman for the commission, when contacted by phone Tuesday. It should be "a matter of days" before the final numbers are published, she said.
The emissions data is compiled in the Community Independent Transaction Log, which is like a bank account for emissions under the trading scheme, and the commission has previously said it would start releasing the data once more than 80% of the data was collected.
On the E.U. Web site Tuesday the commission said that as at 0800 CET "the submitted 2007 verified emissions data did not yet reach the level of at least 80% of 2006 emissions. Therefore, the CITL will not give public access to installation-level verified emissions data today."
As of Tuesday morning, the commission had gathered 69% of data, Helfferich said during a routine press conference in Brussels.