CHAPTER IIReporting by Member States

Section 2Biennial reports

Article 8Reporting guidance

Member States shall report the information listed in Article 3(2) of Decision No 280/2004/EC in accordance with the guidelines for the preparation of national communications by Parties included in Annex I to the Convention, Part II: UNFCCC reporting guidelines on national communications, hereinafter referred to as ‘the UNFCCC reporting guidelines for national communications’, and the Guidelines under Article 7 of the Kyoto Protocol.

Article 9Reporting under Article 3(2)(a) of Decision No 280/2004/EC

The information on national policies and measures referred to in Article 3(2)(a) of Decision No 280/2004/EC shall include:

  1. (a)

    a list of those policies and measures which expired or were repealed during the reporting period;

  2. (b)

    a description of the actual and expected interaction with other relevant policies and measures and with relevant Community policies and legislation;

  3. (c)

    indicators for projections for the years 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020 as listed in Annex III to this Decision.

Article 10Reporting under Article 3(2)(b) of Decision No 280/2004/EC

1.

For the purpose of Article 3(2)(b) of Decision No 280/2004/EC Member States shall clearly identify their ‘with measures’ and ‘with additional measures’ projections and the policies and measures included therein.

A ‘with measures’ projection shall include implemented and adopted policies and measures. A ‘with additional measures’ projection shall include planned policies and measures.

Member States may include information on ‘without measures’ projections as part of their ‘with measures’ and ‘with additional measures’ projections. A ‘without measures’ projection shall exclude all policies and measures implemented, adopted or planned after the year chosen as the starting year for this projection.

2.

The descriptions of methodologies, models, underlying assumptions and key input and output parameters referred to in Article 3(2)(b)(iv) of Decision No 280/2004/EC, shall include, if used, the mandatory parameters set out in point 1 of Annex IV to this Decision.

Member States are encouraged to report the parameters on projections included in the list of recommended parameters set out in point 2 of Annex IV to this Decision.

Member States shall undertake a sensitivity analysis of their projections, focused on the key input variables in their projection models.

Member States are encouraged to define a high, central and low scenario for the key input variables and to quantify projected emissions for these scenarios. Member States are furthermore encouraged to include a measure of robustness of their predictive model and its methods used for their assessments. Member States may consider the use of multi-variant scenarios, using combinations of input variables.

Article 11Reporting under Article 3(2)(a)(vi) and Article 3(2)(d) of Decision No 280/2004/EC

Member States shall provide information on their use of joint implementation, the clean development mechanism and international emissions trading, pursuant to Articles 6, 12 and 17 of the Kyoto Protocol, to meet their quantified emission limitation or reduction commitments pursuant to Article 2 of Council Decision 2002/358/EC2 and the Kyoto Protocol on the basis of the questionnaire set out in Annex V to this Decision. Member States are encouraged to provide this information on an annual basis as part of their report pursuant to Article 3(1) of Decision No 280/2004/EC.

Member States may limit this information to changes or additions to the information reported on the basis of the questionnaire for the previous year.