1. Time table for revision of the NECD
NEC-PI meeting
12 – 13 July 2006

2. Legal text
Issues:
Emission ceilings for SO2, NOx, VOC’s, NH3 and primary PM2.5 for 2020
Ship emissions
Control area’s
Reporting emission inventories and projections
Comitology

3. Impact Assessment
Detailed Impact Assessment as announced in Thematic Strategy
Assessment of administrative costs
Public stakeholder consultation not needed

4. Milestones Technical work
29/9 Baseline presentation at workshop open for Member States and stakeholders
Oct - Nov model runs
Jan – March additional/sensitivity runs
April – May NEC’s
Legal text + Impact Assessment
June Proposal into ISC

5. Dates 29 September 2006 Workshop (NEC PI meeting)
18 December NECD Inter-service Group
18-19 December 2006 NEC-PI Working Group
21 March NECD Inter-service Group
21-22 March NEC-PI Working Group
23 May NECD Inter-service Group
23-24 May NEC-PI Working Group

6. NEC-PI meeting 3 – 4 October 2006
Cancelled as such, but:
There will be a workshop on 29/9
Items foreseen for 4 October 2006 will be discussed at the meeting of December 2006
Items with regard to legal/technical structure (foreseen for 3 October 2006) will be discussed first internally, possible agenda item for March or May 2006

7. Agenda NEC-PI 18-19 December 2006
Items:
IAM results which reproduce the policy scenarios used for the Thematic Strategy
Ship emissions
City Delta 3
Optimal Control Area’s
Non technical measures

8. Agenda NEC-PI 21 – 22 March 2007 Items:
Results of runs for certain sensitivity cases
Assessing National Programmes (to be used again in revised NECD/)
Reporting obligations for emission inventories and projections
Other legal/technical structure NECD (poss.)

9. Agenda NEC-PI 23 – 24 May 2007
All remaining items

10. Milestones Technical work
29/9 Baseline presentation at workshop open for Member States and stakeholders
Oct - Nov model runs
Jan – March additional/sensitivity runs
April – May NEC’s
Legal text + Impact Assessment
June Proposal into ISC

11. Optimal Control Area’s
NEC-PI meeting
12 – 13 July 2006

12. Purpose
The purpose of the proposed study is to determine optimal control areas with regard to the protection of soils, lakes and vegetation from ground-level ozone, acidification and eutrophication.
In practice the study is about the emission reductions of SO2 and NOx
Optimal control area’s can be used for different policy instruments: emission trading is (just) one of these.

13. Approach
determine the effect of local emission changes on the integrated (over Europe) change in AAE-acidification, AAE-euthrophication, AOT40F
construct equivalency maps over Europe expressed in effect/kg
calculate effects and costs for three different options

14. The effect (%) per grid cell of changing the integrated AAE
The effect (%) per grid cell of changing the integrated AAE. All grid cells together are 100%

15. The effect per tonne on AAE-Eu expressed with respect to the average effect

16. Finalizing the study Interim report will be available next week
Peer review by experts 1 September 2006
Draft final report by middle of October 2006
Study finalized by middle of November 2006
Results will be presented at NEC-PI December 2006

17. Revision of EMEP/Corinair Guidebook
NEC-PI meeting
12 – 13 July 2006

18. Revision of EMEP/Corinair Guidebook
A complete and up to date EMEP/CORINAIR guidebook is very important both for the implementation of the current National Emission Ceilings Directive as well as for the adoption of the proposal for the revised NEC Directive
Close cooperation between DG ENV- EEA and CLTRAP bodies
Work burden mainly for external contractor and funded by European Commission
Work plan to be presented at TFEIP in October 2006
Final approval by EB December 2008 and Council by comitology
EEA will edit and host guidebook at their website

19. Revision of Guidebook Structure
A way to meet the guidebook’s objective and the key functions is to develop a systematically tiered structure and separate textual information from numerical information
The numerical information could be placed in an EFDB providing several values of default emission factors related to ranges of process conditions and abatement technologies.
Pilot for EFDB is implemented under the work plan of ETC ACCC
Use of the EFDB also has aspects related to adoption of the Guidebook that needs to be addressed

20. Revision of Guidebook Coverage
Complementary to 2006 IPPC Guidelines
Chapters on Good practice
Methodological choice, inventory strategy and key source analysis
Data collection issues
QA/QC
Uncertainties
Time series consistency
Inventory improvement programmes
Projections
Spatial emission inventories (50x50 km)
Measurement methodologies and standardized approach guidance
Coverage of all CLTRAP and NECD pollutants, including PM2.5
Coverage of all source categories as defined in LTRAP reporting Guidelines (NFR)

21. Revision of Guidebook Sectoral updates
General:
The update should be based on existing knowledge laid down in recent and reports or available from experts. This means that no additional research by the contractor will be needed.
Already ongoing:
Emission factors for PM2.5 (AEAT)
In pipeline:
European database for stocks of all types of vehicles
Specific sectors:
Combustion and industry
Transport, in particular off-road sources
Agriculture and nature

22. Revision of Guidebook Proces
Proposal will be discussed at the TFEIP/EIONET meeting in November 2006
Contractor will start beginning 2007
Project will be made in close collaboration with TFEIP, and TFEIP will review the ”new guidebook” befor adoption in 2008