Commission Decision of 10 February 2005 laying down rules implementing Decision No 280/2004/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning a mechanism for monitoring Community greenhouse gas emissions and for implementing the Kyoto Protocol (notified under document number C(2005) 247) (2005/166/EC)

Section 1 Annual reports

Article 2 Determination and reporting guidance

1. Member States shall determine the information reported pursuant to Article 3(1) of Decision No 280/2004/EC in accordance with:

(a) the revised 1996 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories, hereinafter referred to as ‘the revised 1996 IPCC guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories’;

(b) the IPCC good practice guidance and uncertainty management in national greenhouse gas inventories, hereinafter referred to as ‘the IPCC good practice guidance’;

(c) the IPCC good practice guidance for land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), hereinafter referred to as ‘the IPCC good practice guidance for LULUCF’.

2. Member States shall report the information reported pursuant to Article 3(1) of Decision No 280/2004/EC to the Commission with a copy to the European Environment Agency in accordance with:

(a) the guidelines for the preparation of national communications by Parties included in Annex I to the Convention, part I: UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual inventories, hereinafter referred to as ‘the UNFCCC reporting guidelines for annual inventories’;

(b) the guidelines for the preparation of the information required under Article 7 of the Kyoto Protocol, hereinafter referred to as ‘the guidelines under Article 7 of the Kyoto Protocol’.

3. The complete national inventory report referred to in Article 3(1) second subparagraph of Decision No 280/2004/EC, shall be drafted using the national inventory report structure set out in the UNFCCC reporting guidelines for annual inventories.

Article 3 Reporting under Article 3(1)(d) of Decision No 280/2004/EC

1. Member States shall, in accordance with Article 3(3) of the Kyoto Protocol and the relevant decisions adopted thereunder, for the purpose of Article 3(1)(d) of Decision No 280/2004/EC report their anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks from land-use change and forestry activities under Article 3(3) of the Kyoto Protocol for the years between 1990 and the year before last.

Member States that elect forest management, cropland management, grazing land management or revegetation under Article 3(4) of the Kyoto Protocol shall in addition report anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks for each elected activity for the years between 1990 and the year before last.

Member States shall clearly distinguish this information from estimates of anthropogenic emissions from the sources listed in Annex A to the Kyoto Protocol.

2. Member States shall provide the information in paragraph 1 in their reports submitted from 15 January 2010 onwards.

Article 4 Reporting under Article 3(1)(f) of Decision No 280/2004/EC

1. Member States shall for the purpose of Article 3(1)(f) of Decision No 280/2004/EC report:

(a) a description of the Member State’s institutional arrangements for inventory preparation and the process of inventory preparation;

(b) a description of methodologies and data sources used, including information on methods used, and types of activity data and emission factors used for the Community’s key sources as annually determined by the Commission by 31 October in accordance with Chapter 7 of the IPCC good practice guidance and Chapter 5 of the IPCC good practice guidance for LULUCF. Member States shall provide this information by referring to sections of the national inventory report or in the tabular format provided in Annex I to this Decision;

(c) information on the Member State’s quality assurance and quality control programme, including its quality objectives and inventory quality assurance and quality control plan;

(d) a general uncertainty assessment;

(e) a general assessment of completeness, addressing the geographical coverage of that Member State and any gaps in the inventory submission;

(f) the comparison of the sectoral approach with the reference approach;

(g) any responses to the UNFCCC review of previous national inventories received since the submission of the previous national inventory and information on any recalculations performed;

(h) the description and interpretation of past emission trends.

2. For the information to be provided pursuant to points (a) to (e) in paragraph 1, Member States may indicate that no changes occurred to those sections of the national inventory report.

Article 5 Reporting under Article 3(1)(g) of Decision No 280/2004/EC

The information from the national registry referred to in Article 3(1)(g) of Decision No 280/2004/EC shall include the information required pursuant to the guidelines under Article 7 of the Kyoto Protocol.

Article 6 Reporting under Article 3(1)(h) of Decision No 280/2004/EC

The information on legal entities referred to in Article 3(1)(h) of Decision No 280/2004/EC shall include a list of legal entities authorised by the Member State to hold assigned amount units (AAUs), removal units (RMUs), emission reduction units (ERUs) and certified emission reductions (CERs), including temporary CERs (tCERS) and long-term CERs (lCERs).

Article 7 Reporting under Article 3(1)(j) of Decision No 280/2004/EC

The information on indicators referred to in Article 3(1)(j) of Decision No 280/2004/EC:

(a)

shall include, by 15 January 2005 and each year thereafter, the values for the priority indicators listed in table II-1 in Annex II;

(b)

should include, by 15 January 2005, and shall include, by 15 January 2006 and each year thereafter, the values for the additional priority indicators listed in table II-2 in Annex II;

(c)

should include, by 15 January 2005 and each year thereafter, the values for the supplementary indicators listed in table II-3 in Annex II.