CHAPTER II

VERIFICATION

Information from an operator or aircraft operator
Article 10
1
Before the strategic analysis and at other points of time during the verification, the operator or aircraft operator shall provide the verifier with all of the following:
a
the operator’s greenhouse gas emissions permit when this concerns the verification of an operator’s emission report;
b
the latest version of the operator’s or aircraft operator’s monitoring plan as well as any other relevant versions of the monitoring plan approved by the competent authority, including evidence of the approval;
c
a description of the operator’s or aircraft operator’s data flow activities;
d
the operator’s or aircraft operator’s risk assessment referred to in Article 58(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 601/2012, and an outline of the overall control system;
e
the procedures mentioned in the monitoring plan as approved by the competent authority, including procedures for data flow activities and control activities;
f
the operator’s or aircraft operator’s annual emission or tonne-kilometre report, as appropriate;
g
where applicable, the operator’s sampling plan referred to in Article 33 of Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 as approved by the competent authority;
h
where the monitoring plan was modified during the reporting period, a record of all those modifications in accordance with Article 16(3) of Regulation (EU) No 601/2012;
i
where applicable, the report referred to in Article 69(4) of Regulation (EU) No 601/2012;
j
the verification report from the previous year if the verifier did not carry out the verification for that particular operator or aircraft operator the previous year;
k
all relevant correspondence with the competent authority, in particular information related to the notification of modifications of the monitoring plan;
l
information on databases and data sources used for monitoring and reporting purposes, including those from Eurocontrol;
m
where the verification concerns the emission report of an installation carrying out the geological storage of greenhouse gases in a storage site permitted under Directive 2009/31/EC, the monitoring plan required by that Directive and the reports required by Article 14 of that Directive, covering at least the reporting period of the emissions report to be verified;
n
where applicable, the approval of the competent authority for not carrying out site visits for installations pursuant to Article 31(1);
o
any other relevant information necessary for the planning and carrying out of the verification.
2
Before the verifier issues the verification report, the operator or aircraft operator shall provide it with the final authorised and internally validated operator’s or aircraft operator’s report.