The AIB offers a standardised solution – the European Energy Certificate System, or “EECS”. This passes on the years of experience and support of members who have already implemented systems, and identifies and overcomes solutions to many common problems. It guarantees collaborative and effective operation of certificate schemes across Europe; providing a structured environment for the harmonisation of such matters as: registration of production devices; coding schemes; definition of certificates and so on.

Furthermore, the AIB offers an electronic Hub, providing a single point of contact for certificate registries. This enables risk to be reduced by means of simple interfacing with other registries and sharing of common information. The Hub will eventually provide a central repository for information relating to market activity (although note that there are no plans for the prices of trades to be captured).

While the AIB cannot change national legislation, by working closely with the issuing bodies for Guarantees of Origin, it can help them to implement national schemes in a way which will be acceptable across Europe, thus promoting the effective operation of the EU RES Directive (2001/77/EC and its successor, 2009/28/EC), CHP Directive (2004/8/EC) and Internal Electricity Markets Directive (2003/54/EC).