The general Commodity Exchange founded in 1872 was joined with the Vienna Stock Exchange to form the Vienna Stock and Commodity Exchange in 1876. Ever since, the Wiener Börse has had two departments; the Stock Exchange and the Commodity Exchange. However, Vienna had never been an important market for commodities. High volumes of dealings in commodities were made only during the years 1921 to 1924. The importance of the Vienna Commodity Exchange for the economy today lies above all in such typical ancillary activities as drawing up trading rules, expert opinions and sample drawings, and in the Court of Arbitration.
The Commodity Exchange gained new significance with the introduction of trading in electric power on 21 March 2002 and the trading in gas contracts between 11 December 2009 and 1 December 2016.
Trading in energy products
Wiener Börse AG charged EXAA Abwicklungsstelle für Energieprodukte AG (EXAA) with the task of providing and operating an automated trading system for trading in energy and environmental products on the Vienna Stock Exchange in its function as a general commodity exchange. Trading in electric energy products and in environmental products takes place exclusively through the automated trading system smart.XTRADE made available and operated by EXAA in accordance with the applicable General Terms and Conditions of Business (Special Terms) of the Vienna Stock Exchange in its function as a commodity exchange.
Apart from Wiener Börse AG, the shareholders of EXAA are Oesterreichische Kontrollbank Aktiengesellschaft, smart technologies Management-Beratungs- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft m.b.H., APCS Power Clearing and Settlement AG, and eight power utilities.
Further information on trading in electric power is available at exaa.at.
CCP.A has been commissioned by Wiener Börse AG as the clearing agent pursuant to § 9 para. 3 BörseG 2018 to clear the electricity exchange transactions concluded on Wiener Börse as a general commodity exchange in trading in electricity products. Settlement shall be carried out in accordance with the special General Terms and Conditions (Special Conditions) applicable to the Vienna Stock Exchange as a commodity exchange as well as the General Terms and Conditions - Cash Market Products for Electric Power of CCP.A.
More information on CCP.A can be found at ccpa.at.
Downloads
Announcement regarding the permanent discontinuation of the timber price list effective as of 15 July 2019 (pdf-file 90 KB – German)
Stock exchange act (pdf-file 950 KB)