What happened
The European Commission has said that available data concerning 2025 surrender and compliance under the EU Emissions Trading System will be released by 6 October 2026 at the latest.
The announcement was published on 25 September 2026 by the Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action, known as DG CLIMA. It identifies both the reporting year covered by the planned publication and the latest date by which the information is expected to be made available.
The Commission’s notice is limited in scope. It refers to surrender and compliance data for 2025, rather than setting out individual results, explaining the underlying methodology or describing the precise fields that will be included in the publication.
Why it matters
The notice establishes a clear outer deadline for the public release of the available 2025 information. For organisations following EU ETS compliance activity, it gives a defined point by which they can expect the Commission to publish the relevant data.
Surrender and compliance are the subjects explicitly identified in the Commission communication. The announcement should therefore be read as a timetable for those data, not as a broader statement on all EU ETS information or on future changes to the scheme.
Its wording also matters: the Commission refers to data that are available. The source does not provide further detail on coverage, format, granularity or any separate publication schedule before the stated deadline.
What readers should do next
Teams monitoring EU ETS compliance records should note 6 October 2026 as the latest indicated publication date for the 2025 surrender and compliance dataset. They can use the DG CLIMA notice as the source for that timing.
Readers should avoid drawing conclusions about 2025 compliance outcomes from this announcement alone. The notice confirms an intended release date, but it does not itself contain the underlying figures or an account of what those figures may show.
Once the Commission publishes the information, users will be able to assess the available data directly. Until then, the confirmed detail is that the publication concerns 2025 EU ETS surrender and compliance information and is due no later than the date stated by DG CLIMA.
