1. The Monitoring Mechanism of greenhouse gas emissions from the European Community Hartmut Behrend European Commission DG ENV.C.2, Brussels

2. Legal basis UNFCCC (in future KP) EU
Revised 1996 IPCC Manual on Inventories
Good Practise Guidance on Reporting and Uncertainty assessment
Guidelines on National Communications and annual inventories (FCCC/CP/2002/8, decision 18/CP.8) EU
Council Decision 280/2004/EC on GHG Monitoring and the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol
Implementing Provisions (Commission Decision in preparation)

3. Summary of EC Council decision
Monitoring the emissions of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases and removals by sinks,
Annual GHG inventory reporting by MS to the European Commission
Implementation and annual reporting of national programmes (including policies and measures) and emission projections to the Commission and
Evaluation of progress and reporting to the European Parliament and Council by the Commission

4. Further elements Greenhouse gas inventory system (KP Art. 5.1)
Procedures for the review process and adjustments (KP Art. 5.2 and Art. 8)
Reporting on accounting of assigned amounts and national registries (KP Art. 7.1, 7.2 and 7.4)
Information to be incorporated in the periodic communications to the UNFCCC
Policies and measures and Projections
Reporting on flexible mechanisms (JI, CDM, IET) and sinks
Additional Reports
- Report on demonstrable progress
- Report on assigned amounts
Establishment of
- national systems (incl. Report) and
- registries

5. EC GHG inventory institutional arrangements
Member states prepare inventory according to UNFCCC Guidelines and participate in EC Climate Change Committee, assisted by two working groups
European Commission (DG ENV) responsible for submission to UNFCCC, assisted by EEA (and European Topic Centre Air and Climate Change, ETC/ACC) and the DGs of the European Commission ESTAT and JRC
Working group I of the Climate Change Committee promotes improvement of all GHG inventory quality aspects (transparency, consistency, comparability, completeness, accuracy and use of good practices)
Working group II of the Climate Change Committee promotes improvement of quality of reporting on GHG emission projections (transparency, consistency, comparability, completeness)
EC “National Inventory Report” follows UNFCCC Guidelines

6. Data flow EC GHG inventory
UNFCCC
Austria UK
Sweden
Belgium
Finland
European Commission (ENV, ESTAT, JRC)
and EEA
Germany
Luxembourg
Italy EU
Greece
Denmark
France
Ireland
Netherlands
Spain
Parliament
Council
Portugal

7. Preparation EC inventory

8. Activities for improving the Monitoring Mechanism
Eurostat improvement project for national energy balances and annual estimation of EC CO2 emissions (IPCC Reference Approach)
Data gap filling to achieve complete EC inventory (limited to few MS)
Workshop on LULUCF
Workshop on agricultural emissions
Workshop on Projections of GHG emissions
Workshop on GHG emissions from agriculture
Workshop on Energy balances and energy-related GHG emissions
Project on LULUCF emissions and removals
Workshop on Inverse Modelling
Project on N20-emissions from agricultural soils (ongoing)
Workshop on bunker fuels

9. Next steps of the Monitoring Mechanism (in the Working Groups of the Climate Change Committee)
Establishment of a QA/QC-plan
Determination of uncertainties of the inventory
Determination of uncertainties in the projections
Workshop on emissions from the waste sector
Workshop on demonstrable progress
Proper implementation of the GPG on LULUCF

10. EU greenhouse gas emissions in relation to the Kyoto target (excl
EU greenhouse gas emissions in relation to the Kyoto target (excl. LUCF)

11. Community Greenhouse Gas Inventory System

12. For further information you may look at: www. europa. eu
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