Subject matter
This Regulation establishes rules implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 as regards the following:
(a)
Member States’ reporting on national adaptation actions, the use of auctioning revenues and financial and technology support provided to developing countries pursuant to Article 19 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999;
(b)
Member States’ reporting on approximated greenhouse gas (or GHG) inventories, greenhouse gas inventories and accounted greenhouse gas emissions and removals pursuant to Article 26 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999;
(c)
requirements on the establishment, operation and functioning of national inventory systems pursuant to Article 37 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999;
(d)
the timing and the procedure for carrying out the comprehensive review pursuant to Article 38 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999;
(e)
Member States’ reporting on national system for policies and measures and projections pursuant to Article 39 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999.
Scope
This Regulation applies to the reports submitted by the Member States containing data required for the year 2021 onwards.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:
(1)
‘common reporting table’, or ‘CRT’, means a table for information on anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks included in Annex II to Decision 24/CP.19 of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (Decision 24/CP.19);
(2)
‘reference approach’ means the reference approach by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as set out in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (‘2006 IPCC Guidelines’);
(3)
‘approach 1’ means the basic method for the estimation of uncertainties included in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines;
(4)
‘key category’ means a category which has a significant influence on a Member State’s or the Union’s total inventory of greenhouse gases in terms of the absolute level of emissions and removals, the trend in emissions and removals, or uncertainty in emissions and removals;
(5)
‘sectoral approach’ means the IPCC sectoral approach as set out in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines;
(6)
‘outline for greenhouse gas inventory documents’ means the outline set out in the Appendix to the UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual greenhouse gas inventories as included in Annex I to Decision 24/CP.19.;
(7)
‘transparency MPGs’ means the modalities, procedures and guidelines for the transparency framework for action and support referred to in Article 13 of the Paris Agreement, as set out in in the Annex to Decision 18/CMA.1 of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC serving as meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement;
(8)
‘greenhouse gas inventory guidelines’ mean guidelines specified in Article 3 of the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1044 ( 9 ) ;
(9)
‘recalculation’ is a procedure for re-estimating, in accordance with the greenhouse gas inventory guidelines anthropogenic GHG emissions by sources and removals by sinks of previously submitted GHG inventories as a consequence of changes in methodologies, changes in the manner in which emission factors and activity data are obtained and used, or the inclusion of new source and sink categories.
