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)

CHAPTER III The Community inventory system

Section 1 The Community inventory system

Article 12 Quality and exchange of information and data in the Community inventory system

1. Member States shall ensure the quality of activity data, emission factors and other parameters used for their national greenhouse gas inventory in accordance with the IPCC good practice guidance and the IPCC good practice guidance for LULUCF.

2. Member States shall submit their annual inventory in an electronic format to the Commission and send a copy to the European Environment Agency.

Section 2 Estimates for data missing from a national inventory pursuant to Article 4(1) of Decision No 280/2004/EC

Article 13 Estimates for data missing from a national inventory pursuant to Article 4(1) of Decision No 280/2004/EC

If a Member State does not submit all data required pursuant to Article 3(1) of Decision No 280/2004/EC by 15 March of a reporting year, the Commission shall prepare estimates for data missing for that Member State to be included in the Community greenhouse gas inventory for that reporting year and source category, in accordance with the UNFCCC reporting guidelines for annual inventories and the revised 1996 IPCC guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories.

Article 14

1. The Commission estimates for missing data shall be based on the principles set out in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4.

2. If a consistent time series of reported estimates for the relevant source category is available from the Member State for previous years that has not been subject to adjustments under Article 5(2) of the Kyoto Protocol, extrapolation of that time series shall be used to obtain the emission estimate.

For carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector, extrapolation of emissions should be based on the percentage change of Eurostat carbon dioxide emission estimates.

3. If the estimate for the relevant source category was subject to adjustments under Article 5(2) of the Kyoto Protocol in previous years and the Member State has not submitted a revised estimate, the basic adjustment method used by the expert review team as set out in the technical guidance on methodologies for adjustments under Article 5(2) of the Kyoto Protocol, hereinafter referred to as ‘the technical guidance for adjustments’, shall be used, without application of the conservativeness factor defined in that guidance.

4. If a consistent time series of reported estimates for the relevant source category is not available and if the estimate of the source category has not been subject to adjustments under Article 5(2) of the Kyoto Protocol, the estimation shall be based on the technical guidance for adjustments, without application of the conservativeness factor defined in that guidance.

Article 15

The Commission shall prepare the estimates referred to in Article 14 by 31 March of the reporting year, following consultation with the Member State concerned, and communicate those estimates to the other Member States.

Article 16

The Member State concerned shall use the estimates referred to in Article 14 for its national submission to the UNFCCC to ensure consistency between the Community inventory and Member States’ inventories.