7.Knock-on effects: free allocation and carbon price paid

• Free allocation adjustment. With defaults, the adjustment also uses default benchmarks and the route letter from Annex I.
• Carbon price paid. The price you actually paid can only be deducted with actual values. With defaults, only a yearly default carbon price (if the Commission publishes one for your country) can be used.

WATCH OUT If you pay a domestic carbon price and your buyer uses defaults, what you actually paid cannot be claimed.

Sources: REG Art 9(1), 9(4); QA 3.8 p.25; DVA-COR Annex I p.4.