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5     Certification issued by the TSO in Letter No. 54878 of 645 MW of lignite fired power units at
      11 December 2025 of permanently withdrawing and        Turceni Unit 7 (330 MW) and the
      decommissioning from NTS of two units at Complexul     Ișalnița Unit 7 (315 MW) have been
      Energetic Oltenia.                                     disconnected from the electricity
      Date of entry into force: 21 November 2025.            network and removed from the
                                                             electricity balancing market.
6     Decision No. 660 of 25 March 2026 issued by ANRE 330 MW of lignite fired power units at
      amending License No. 1085 for the commercial Turceni Unit 4 have been removed
      operation of electricity and thermal energy production from the licence.
      capacities in cogeneration power plants granted to
      Complexul Energetic Oltenia S.A.
      Date of entry into force: 27 March 2026.

7     Certification issued by the TSO in Letter No. 1507 of 330 MW of lignite fired power units at
      30 March 2026 of permanently withdrawing and Turceni                Unit    4   have   been
      decommissioning from NTS of one unit at Complexul disconnected from the electricity
      Energetic Oltenia.                                     network and removed from the
      Date of entry into force: 27 March 2026.               electricity balancing market.

3. Analysis:

The justification and substantiating evidence provided by the Romania authorities cover all constitutive elements of the target.

Decision(s) issued by National Energy Regulator withdrawing operating license(s) together with certification(s) from the Transmission System Operator confirming the disconnection of a cumulative 3070 MW of coal and lignite-fired decommissioned electricity production capacity.

Target 119 follows the satisfactorily fulfilment, under the third payment request, of target 115, which required the decommissioning of 2025 MW of coal and lignite-fired installed electricity production capacity and the mothballing of 330 MW capacity. Therefore, the total amount of electricity production capacity to be decommissioned under target 119 is 1 045 MW to achieve the cumulative 3070 MW decommissioned capacity.

The Romanian authorities provided evidence that CET Iași II Holboca (50 MW) and three generating units of Complexul Energetic Oltenia S.A. (Turceni 7 (330 MW) Ișalnița 7 (315 MW), and Turceni 4 (330 MW) have been decommissioned with a total amount of 1 025 MW of decommissioned electricity production capacity. In detail:

First, by Decision No. 2611 of 11 December 2025 the Romanian Energy Regulator (ANRE) revoked Licence No. 2277 granted to CET Iași II Holboca for the production of electricity and thermal energy in cogeneration from coal, by removing Iasi II unit with an installed capacity of 50 MW from the licence (Evidence No. 2). In addition, the certification issued by Transelectrica (the Transmission System Operator), in Letter No. 23872/DEN/16 December 2025 sent to the Ministry of Energy (Evidence No. 3), confirms that the unit Iași II Holboca, with a coal-fired installed capacity of 50 MW, has been permanently withdrawn from the National Transmission System (NTS). In this letter, Transelectrica also specified that this power unit was no longer producing electricity nor participating in the electricity balancing market.

Second, by Decisions No. 2425 of 18 November 2025 and No. 660 of 25 March 2026, ANRE amended Licence No. 1085 granted to Complexul Energetic Oltenia for the production of electricity from

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