Monitoring, Reporting and Verification in the EU ETS: Status and Implementation Stakeholder Day on the EU MRG Cologne 12 May 2005 Marco Loprieno Climate Change Unit European.
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Monitoring, Reporting and Verification in
the EU ETS: Status and Implementation
Stakeholder Day on the EU MRG
Cologne
12 May 2005
Marco Loprieno
Climate Change Unit
European Commission, DG Environment
European Commission: DG Environment
Monitoring….
at the heart of the EU ETS
Companies must monitor and report their
GHG emissions from 1 January 2005
onwards
Installations must have a permit, with
monitoring and reporting requirements set
out therein, from 1 January 2005 onwards
European Commission: DG Environment
The EU MRG framework…
1. Determination of emissions (monitoring):
Installation-based calculation and measurement
of CO2-emissions including archiving, QA/QC &
Documentation
2. Reporting of Emissions:
Annual installation-specific emissions report
3. Verification of emission report
Checked by an independent verifier
European Commission: DG Environment
The Objectives of the EU-MRG
Transparency
Consistency with national inventories
Cost-effective, sufficiently flexible approaches for
different sectors, technologies, installation sizes and ages
Total uncertainty within acceptable ranges
European Commission: DG Environment
Annex I: General Guidelines
General requirements for monitoring and reporting:
System boundaries
Calculation and measurement
Selection of emission factors and oxidation factors
Retention of information
Quality assurance and control
Guidance on uncertainty assessment
Reporting requirements
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Annex II-XI: Sectoral Guidelines
II)
General combustion installation guidelines
III-XI) Sector specific provisions for monitoring and
reporting:
Potential GHG-sources of typical installations/processes
Potential categories of GHG-emissions (combustion,
processes)
Specific calculation methods
Process-specific emission factors
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Tier Approach
Tiers: approaches with different levels of accuracy for
calculation of emissions
Tier 1: lowest level of accuracy - increasing
numbering reflects increasing accuracy
Choice of tiers: Obligatory use of highest tier unless
this is not technically feasible or leads to unreasonably
high costs
Choice of tiers to be approved by competent authority
as part of permitting process
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Reporting
Annual report to the competent authority
To be verified by an independent Verifier
Information provided
Production data relevant for level of emissions: consumption of
fuel-/ input material, production output, etc.
Emission factors, oxidation/conversion factors
Emissions for each of the activities carried out
Information publicly available Art 17 of Directive
2003/4/EC on Access to environmental information
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Verification & Accreditation
No harmonised verification and accreditation
requirements in Directive
Some Member States have already set up
systems for verifying allocation data
Mutual recognition of verifiers left to the
discretion of individual Member States
Possibilities for harmonising verification
regime for second trading period?
European Commission: DG Environment
ETS Next Steps
No far-reaching changes to the allocation
process foreseen for the 2nd round of NAPs
Fine tuning
Looking to the future, cautious about making
alterations to the scheme – policy debate
should not get carried away
.....Commission review of MRG
European Commission: DG Environment
MRG Next Steps
EU-MRG are the legally binding framework
for monitoring and reporting within the EUETS
1st report in March 2006 – but monitoring
started on 1 January 2005
Fine-tuning of Guidelines for 2nd Period
Input from stakeholders who have hands-on
experience of the scheme is crucial
European Commission: DG Environment
MRG Next Steps
Report from Stakeholder Day to MS
Update from ECOFYS Study (end of the year/
beginning next year)
From now on MRG on the agenda of
discussion with MS
DG ENV Monitoring Web Page
Commission review of MRG – Proposal by
mid 2006 – Adoption: end 2006
European Commission: DG Environment
MRG Next Steps
DG ENV Monitoring Web Page:
EU-MRG language version
FAQs on Monitoring & Reporting
Results of Stakeholder Consultation
http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/climat/
emission/mrg_en.htm
Contact: [email protected]
European Commission: DG Environment