CHAPTER II

MONITORING AND REPORTING
SECTION 1

Principles and methods for monitoring and reporting

Common principles for monitoring and reporting
Article 4
1
In accordance with Articles 8 to 12, companies shall, for each of their ships, monitor and report on the relevant parameters during a reporting period. They shall carry out that monitoring and reporting within all ports in the United Kingdom and for any voyages to or from a port in the United Kingdom.
2
Monitoring and reporting shall be complete and cover CO2 emissions from the combustion of fuels, while the ships are at sea as well as at berth. Companies shall apply appropriate measures to prevent any data gaps within the reporting period.
3
Monitoring and reporting shall be consistent and comparable over time. To that end, companies shall use the same monitoring methodologies and data sets subject to modifications assessed by the verifier.
4
Companies shall obtain, record, compile, analyse and document monitoring data, including assumptions, references, emission factors and activity data, in a transparent manner that enables the reproduction of the determination of CO2 emissions by the verifier.
5
Companies shall ensure that the determination of CO2 emissions is neither systematically nor knowingly inaccurate. They shall identify and reduce any source of inaccuracies.
6
Companies shall enable reasonable assurance of the integrity of the CO2 emission data to be monitored and reported.
7
Companies shall endeavour to take account of the recommendations included in the verification reports issued pursuant to Article 13(3) or (4) in their subsequent monitoring and reporting.

Methods for monitoring CO2 emissions and other relevant information
Article 5
1
For the purposes of Article 4(1), (2) and (3), companies shall, for each of their ships, determine the CO2 emissions in accordance with any of the methods set out in Annex I, and monitor other relevant information in accordance with the rules set out in Annex II or adopted pursuant to it.
2
The Secretary of State may make regulations to amend the methods set out in Annex I and the rules set out in Annex II, in order to take into account relevant international rules as well as international and European standards ... and to amend Annexes I and II in order to refine the elements of the monitoring methods set out therein, in the light of technological and scientific developments.
Words in Art. 5(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Merchant Shipping (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Carbon Dioxide Emissions) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1388), regs. 1, 3(5)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Words in Art. 4 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Merchant Shipping (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Carbon Dioxide Emissions) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1388), regs. 1, 3(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Word in Art. 5(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Merchant Shipping (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Carbon Dioxide Emissions) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1388), regs. 1, 3(5)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Full stop in Art. 5(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Merchant Shipping (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Carbon Dioxide Emissions) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1388), regs. 1, 3(5)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)