Customer Information - Natural Gas, LNG and EUA: EEX launches new expiries

    Dear Trading Participants,

    The European Energy Exchange (EEX) will expand its product offering on the EEX Natural Gas, LNG and EUA derivatives markets with new tradable maturities effective from Monday, 11 December 2023.

    Product setup
    The new tradable maturities will be available at EEX for order book trading and trade registration as follows:


    1) Extended maturities for EEX Natural Gas and LNG Futures

    *Further information can be found in the table in the attached document*

    2) Maturity Extension EUA Futures & optimisation of expiries for EUA Options
    Following the recent revision of the ETS directive (2003/87/EC), including the shift of the compliance deadline to surrender allowances from 30 April to 30 September, EEX will adjust the listing cycle for futures and option expiries to provide market participants with more flexible trading and hedging opportunities. For EUA futures, three July and August expiries and for EUA options, two August expiries will always be available for trading. For EUA options, the tradable quarter and year expiries will be reduced in line with market demand to the setup stated below. 

    *Further information can be found in the table in the attached document*

    Detailed information on the product setup is provided in the EEX Contract Specification, EEX Contract Specification for Trade Registration and in the ECC Contract Details File.

    Transaction fees
    The following standard transaction and clearing fees will apply according to the EEX AG List of Services and Prices and ECC price list.

    *Further information can be found in the table in the attached document*

    Admission/Product Assignment
    All trading participants admitted for the existing product groups at EEX and approved by ECC to trade these EEX Derivatives products will automatically receive access to the additional tradable expiries. Please contact EEX Customer Care (membership@eex.com or +33 (0)1 7036 33 42) in case of admission-related questions.

    Technical access
    For Members trading through the solutions provided by TT screen, Trayport® Joule® SaaS these additional tradable maturities will be automatically added within the corresponding
    Trayport instrument for each hub.
    The registration of trades via Clearing Registration Service (eXRP), Trayport Clearing Link or Touchpoint can be used without additional adjustments.

    Please do not hesitate to contact us in case of any further questions.

    Yours sincerely,


    EEX Market Operations                                              
    T +49 341 2156-222 (Leipzig)
    trading@eex.com

    EEX Gas Market Operations
    T +33 1 73 03 96 24
    gas@powernext.com