The individual country outlines

Length 7,000 to 10,000 words (about 21-30 pages with lx/2 line spacing) 

This section should be used to inform the reader of important country-specific background and contextual features of the Member State that will help in understanding the allocation decisions that were made and the problems and issues that presented themselves in the process. Among these features, also the political capacity of each Member State should be tackled. These insights are therefore expected to facilitate the understanding of the influence of the political aspects on the process. 

Member States were confronted with two analytically distinct decisions (1) what was to be the total number of EUAs to be allocated 

Inevitably, certain features and issues will deserve more attention than can be given to them in the micro or macro sections. For instance, inadequacies in data constrained some decisions and data availability seems to have been a problem, and to have constituted a major part of the process, in most if not all Member States. If the issue deserves further mention, this is the section for it. Also Member States had several options explicitly left to them that deserve some discussion, such as whether to auction up to 5% of the total allocation. Certain features of the NAPs also stand out, such as new entrants reserves, closure provisions, and the treatment of central heating plants and biomass burning installations. While all of these may be described in Section 3, this section provides the room to develop the rationale and factors influencing the decisions that were made. This is also the place to discuss other factors that don t fit neatly into the previous categories or that were sufficiently important to deserve more discussion, such as the role of rumour, special-interest lobbying, or particular legal issues. 

This is the place for the broad conclusions or lessons that arise from the experience of the particular Member State in confronting the issues raised by the NAP process. Factors that facilitated or complicated the required decisions are especially important. 

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