| ENERGY CERTIFICATION Energy Certification offers conclusive proof of the source of energy. It does this by creating a unique certificate to represent the attributes of a specific unit of energy. This can then be transferred from owner to owner, thus enabling the final owner (or a body acting on its behalf) to prove the source of the generation. Such certificates may be used to enable consumer choice, and their use can also be a condition of financial support being made available by government or private bodies. Where certificates are passed between different governmental or commercial regimes, these regimes must be harmonised if the information they carry is to be accurate and reliable. The AIB has developed - and acts of guarantor of - such a harmonised system, the European Energy Certification System. EECS offers a set of agreed standards, known as the "Principles and Rules of Operation" - the PRO) which ensure that the systems of its member organisations are compatible with each other. The operation of the PRO is administered for each regime - normally, a geographical area - by an Issuing Body. This is an organisation that is unique to that regime, and is commercially independent of certificate holders. | 
