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REReP regional meeting on “Energy and
climate” in South Eastern Europe
May 22-23rd, 2008
Brussels, Belgium
Reporting obligations under EU
climate change framework.
SEE countries: possibilities to learn from new Member States
experience
Maria Khovanskaya
Climate Change Department
Objectives of the presentation
• Present basic reporting requirements under the
Convention and Kyoto Protocol for the Annex I
Parties
• Present additional climate change reporting
requirements under EU (including EU ETS)
• Discuss the scope of capacity-building activities
for establishment such system for GHG
accounting, monitoring and reporting
WHY?
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Outline of the presentation
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Status of the SEE countries:
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Current reporting obligations of non-Annex I Parties
Reporting obligations of an Annex I Party and requirements
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Annual reporting cycle;
Recent reporting activities prior to the start of the 1st Commitment period;
Оther reports (National Communications, other submissions).
(Additional) reporting obligations of a EU member state as
contribution towards fulfilling reporting obligations of European
Community
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Under the Convention and Kyoto Protocol;
In the EU Accession Process;
Observed discrepancies and needs for synchronization;
Accounting, monitoring and reporting – important matters for the success of
combating of global warming
Monitoring Mechanism (Decision 280/2004/EC)
EU ETS
Lessons learnt from recent accession history of EU-12 and
suggested capacity building needs.
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Status of the SEE countries under UNFCCC and
KP and EU Accession process
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Status of the SEE countries (except Croatia and Slovenia) under the
Convention/Protocol:
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European Community is a Party as the only regional economic integration
organization (as well as all 27 current member states):
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Non-Annex I under the Convention;
Non Annex B under the Protocol
Some ambiguity (neither developing countries nor economies in transition)
Croatia – Annex I, Economy in Transition, Annex B
Annex I of the Convention;
Annex B of the Protocol (with 8% emission reduction target in the first commitment period);
True: European Community should comply with the target as old EU-15;
However, reporting obligations for the new MS are the same as for EU-15;
Highly unlikely that in post-Kyoto reporting obligations will become less stringent
Observed discrepancies:
• At present two different sets of obligations (Annex I vs. non Annex I, Annex B vs. Non Annex
B) : SEE countries do not have either moral responsibility for the accumulated carbon
polution, or reduction targets and , thus, emission quota
• Different sets of reporting
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Status of the SEE countries under UNFCCC and
KP and EU Accession process (cont)
What will happen when non-Annex I, non Annex B countries join the EU,
and hence the European Community which is clearly an Annex I,
Annex B?
• I do not know ;
• Post-Kyoto negotiations might bring many changes but not to the
accounting and reporting since these are the keys to the successful
combating of global warming;
• First guesstimate: SEE countries can be asked to join the Annex I.
Wide range of implications. On accounting and reporting as well;
• Second quesstimate: SEE countries might be asked to accept some
additional obligations (for instance, join EU ETS)
• In any case, the accounting and reporting obligations become more
strict.
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Current reporting obligations of the non-Annex I
Parties
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Convention (Articles 4.1 and 12): all Parties must report on the steps they are taking or
envisage undertaking to implement the Convention .
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In accordance with the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities", the
required contents of these national communications and the timetable for their
submission is different for Annex I and non-Annex I Parties.
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Each non-Annex I Party shall submit its initial communication within three years of the
entry into force of the Convention for that Party, or of the availability of financial
resources
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Core elements of the non-Annex I National Communications:
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• emissions and removals of greenhouse gases (GHGs) – year 1990 or 1994 for the initial NC
and year 2000 for the Second NC ;
• details of the activities a Party has undertaken to implement the Convention
• national circumstances
• vulnerability assessment,
• financial resources and transfer of technology, and
• education, training and public awareness
Bi-annual reporting on the state of transposition of the environmental EU
Directives into national legislation
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reporting system of a hypotethical new EU MS,
EiT
• The new MS have good incentives for proper accounting
and reporting: eligibility to particiate in the flexible
mechanisms is at stake;
• They have done this successfully: eligibility granted by
the Compliance Committee to almost all of the REC’s
beneficiary countries;
• I will omit the reporting requirements for Annex I countries
in 2013-2015.
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Reporting of an new EU MS (Annex I, Annex B)
under the UNFCCC and KP
Types of reports by period of submission
• National Communications (every 5 years);
• Initial report to establish assigned amount (once prior
to commitment period);
• Report on demonstrable Progress (once in 2006);
• Inventories for GHG emissions by sources and
removals by sinks (annually);
• Annual report (submitted only in the first
committment period, annually)
• Small trick: the Annual report is not mandatory in the years 20082009. However, to get full eligibiity it is…still mandatory.
• Submissions of the Parties under various Decisions
of COPs and COP/MOPs (as hoc basis)
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Kyoto Protocol accounting
Annex I Party
systems
National
systems
National
registries
Eligibility
requirements
Reporting
process
Kyoto
Protocol units
Emissions
inventories
Review and
compliance processes
Secretariat
compilation
and accounting
database
Emissions
2008 - 2012
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Assigned
amount
2008 - 2012
Article 3.1
compliance
assessment
Source: Claire Breidenich, UNFCCC, presentation at REC workshop, October 2006
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National Communications
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National circunstances
National Inventory System
National Registry
Article 2 polices and measures
Legislative, enforcement
and administrative arrangements
Technology transfer, capacity building and other Article 10 activities
Financial resources
GHG emissions projections by gas and sector
Systematic observations, vulnerability assessment, impact
assessment, adaptation measures
• Timing: next NC (Fifth) should be submitted in 2010
• Revisions – yes, implications- ambigious
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Report on Demonstrable Progress
• Content
• Domestic measures
• GHG trends
• How measures will help meet commitments
• Article 10 and 11 activities
• Timing – once, required submission in 2006
• Revisions – yes
• No consequances for the late submission or/and
incomplete information
(MS should have submitted this eport prior to 15 October
2005 to ensure European Community preparation od its
DPR)
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Initial Report
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GHG Inventory with base year
Calculation of assigned amount (Art. 3.7& 8 KP)
Calculation of commitment period reserve
National registry
National inventory system
LULUCF definitions and elections
Timing
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Оnce (before January 2007)
Revisions
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Results of Expert review team (ERT) reports – to the Compliance
Committee
Consequances
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Eligibility – granted after 16 months after submissions
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Eligibility of some contries have already been suspended
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GHG Inventory of emissions by sources and
removals by sinks
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Common Reporting Format (CRF)
National Inventory Report (NIR)
All sectors (Annex A and Convention LULUCF Tables)
Methodology: latest IPCC guidelines
Timing
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Annually. Deadline 15 April
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Results of Expert review team (ERT) reports – to a Party under review with
sugested adjustments
Revisions
Consequances: Eligibility can be withdrawn for
• Inventory not submitted w/in 6 weeks of due date
• Omission of Annex A key source that accounts for 7% or more of annual emissions
• Total adjustments to Annex A sources in a year of the commitment period exceeds 7% of
submitted emissions
• At any point in time, sum of adjustments across years of the commitment period exceeds
20% compared to submitted
• An adjustments is applied in three consecutive years to key source that accounts for 2% or
more of Annex A emissions
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Annual Report
• Content:
• Accounting for annually elected LULUCF activities
• Report aggregate holdings and transactions of Kyoto Protocol units in
the form of Standard Electronic Format (SEF)
• Changes in national systems and registries
• (3.14 (non-quantitative committments) info required, but not relevant for
accounting)
• Timing
• Annually. Mandatory from 2010. In 2008 and 2009 - optional
• Revisions
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• Results of Expert review team (ERT) reports – to the
Compliance Committee
• Consequances
• Eligibility can be suspended
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It’s not the end of the story…
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Reporting obligations under EU
• European Community is a Party to the Annex I of the
Convention and Annex B of the Protocol
• European Community should make the same
submissions as described above BUT on behalf of 27
countries
• It needs to collect all the information earlier for the further
compilation (Decision 280/2004/EC of 11 February 2004
concerning a mechanism for monitoring Community
greenhouse gas emissions and for implementing the
Kyoto Protocol. )
• New set of deadlines:
• 15 January – initial GHG Inventory submission to the Commission
• 28 February – end of internal reviews
• 15 March – final GHG inventory submission to the Commision
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Reporting obligations under EU(cont)
Progress Evaluation Report
• Under the Monitoring Mechanism, the European Commission
has to assess, whether the actual and projected progress of
Member States is sufficient to ensure fulfilment of the EC's
commitments under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol;
• Commission has to prepare a progress evaluation report,
which has to be forwarded to the European Parliament and the
Council by October each year;
• Member States have to submit their respective reports by end
of May – beginning of July once in two years
• Content:
• Projections of economic indicators for the economy as a whole and by
sector
• Projections of the GHG
• State of implementation of CCPM (climate related Directives)
• State of Flexible Mechanisms
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Reporting obligations under EU(cont)
EU ETS
• 31 March – verified reports from the installations
should be submitted to the respective authorities
• NAP preparation- not any more. But some kind of
preparatory reporting should be expected.
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Draft reporting schedule a a new MS in 2010
• 1 January – submission of Fifth National Communication
• 15 January – submission to the Commision of draft GHG
inventory
• 28 February – 15 March – incorporation of the
adjustments suggested by the Commission
• 15 March – final GHG inventory submission to the
Commision
• 31 March – collecting verified reports from EU ETS
installations
• 15 April – GHG inventory and Annual report (with ESF)
submission to the UNFCCC
• (Suggested adjustments will be done after ERT
evaluation subject to the ERT availability)
• May – Progress evaluation report to the Commission…
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Suggested capacity-building activities
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As soon as possible notify the DG Enlargement and DG Environment
about the dilemma of being a non-Annex I country within European
Comunity; Should be brought to the agenda of post-Kyoto
negotiations;
Discuss with DG Environment which reporting tasks they might have
in mind for Accession and Candidate Countries;
Useful practicies from the experience of EU-12
• Assigned insitution to perform all climate related reporting activities (for instance,
Nationa Emission Center in Poland);
• Special line in a state budget for inventory preparation˛- sustainability;
• Mandate to provide sectoral information for the Inventory preparation;
• Do not duplicate the tasks – several tasks (emission factors for certain activities)
can be the same under EU ETS, UNFCCC. CDM developers can also do their
fair share like calculating emission factor for the electricity grid;
• Assured sustainability;
• Sufficient human capital….
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Your ideas? 
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I would like to thank Mr. Vlad Trusca (National Focal Point,
Romania) for his kind help in preparation of this
presentation.
Thank you for your attention!
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