CHAPTER IVREPORTING FOR THE PURPOSES OF DECISION No 529/2013/EU
Article 39Reporting requirements on systems for cropland management and grazing land management
1.
To the extent that a Member State has not included information in its national inventory report as set out in Article 38 of this Regulation, it shall report textual information on the systems in place and being developed to estimate emissions and removals from cropland management or grazing land management as referred to in point (a) of the second subparagraph of Article 3(2) of Decision No 529/2013/EU including the following elements:
(a)
a description of the institutional, legal and procedural arrangements made in accordance with the requirements for national systems under the Kyoto Protocol as set out in the Annex to Decision 19/CMP.1 and in accordance with the requirements for national arrangements under the UNFCCC reporting guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories as set out in Annex I to Decision 24/CP.19.
(b)
a description of the manner in which the systems implemented are consistent with the methodological requirements of the IPCC report ‘2013 Revised Supplementary Methods and Good Practice Guidance Arising from the Kyoto Protocol’, the ‘2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories’ and, as applicable, with the ‘2013 Supplement to 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands’.
2.
Member States shall submit the information set out in paragraph 1 as a separate report to the Commission pursuant to the following schedule:
(a)
the first report in the year 2016 for the reporting year 2014 including all developments starting with 1 January 2013,
(b)
the second report in the year 2017 for the reporting year 2015 and,
(c)
the third report in the year 2018 for the reporting year 2016.
3.
Member States shall focus the information included in the reports subsequent to the first report on any changes and developments that have occurred for their systems compared with the information included in their previous report.