Reporting under Article 3(1)(f) of Decision No 280/2004/EC
Article 4
1. Member States shall for the purpose of Article 3(1)(f) of Decision No 280/2004/EC report: (a) a description of the Member State’s institutional arrangements for inventory preparation and the process of inventory preparation; (b) a description of methodologies and data sources used, including information on methods used, and types of activity data and emission factors used for the Community’s key sources as annually determined by the Commission by 31 October in accordance with Chapter 7 of the IPCC good practice guidance and Chapter 5 of the IPCC good practice guidance for LULUCF. Member States shall provide this information by referring to sections of the national inventory report or in the tabular format provided in Annex I to this Decision; (c) information on the Member State’s quality assurance and quality control programme, including its quality objectives and inventory quality assurance and quality control plan; (d) a general uncertainty assessment; (e) a general assessment of completeness, addressing the geographical coverage of that Member State and any gaps in the inventory submission; (f) the comparison of the sectoral approach with the reference approach; (g) any responses to the UNFCCC review of previous national inventories received since the submission of the previous national inventory and information on any recalculations performed; (h) the description and interpretation of past emission trends. 2. For the information to be provided pursuant to points (a) to (e) in paragraph 1, Member States may indicate that no changes occurred to those sections of the national inventory report.