Streamlining and harmonizing

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• Streamlining and harmonizing
• climate change and air pollution requirements
• TFEIP, 23 24 May 2007, Dessau
• Eduard Dame
• DG ENV,Unit C5

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Scope

• Monitoring and reporting requirements of
• Monitoring Mechanism 280/2004/EC and its
  implementing provisions (Decision 2005/166/EC)
• EU ETS (Directive 2003/87/EC) and its
  implementing provisions
• The Kyoto Protocol, the UNFCCC and various IPCC
  reporting guidelines
• Regulation 842/2006/EC on certain fluorinated
  gasses
• NEC-directive (2001/81/EC) and the UNECE
  Gothenburg Protocol
• Other EU-directives (E-PRTR, AQD, IPPC, VOC, LCP)

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Analysis current situation

• Many air pollutants and GHGs have common sources
  and are monitored by the same agencies
• Policy and measures to limit their effect are
  often documented by the same authorities
• The existing monitoring and reporting
  requirements have a different history
• Related guidelines have matured in time
• Experience has been gained through their
  implementation
• And / however ..

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Analysis current situation(2)

• A preliminary assessment based on real life
  experiences by the Commission and the EEA -has
  indicated that improvements can be made in terms
  of
• Consistency
• Timeliness and completeness of reporting
• Quality
• resulting in a more efficient use of
  available resources at both EC and MS level,
  avoiding double reporting and reducing
  administrative burden

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Project - objectives

• identifying inter-linkages between the monitoring
  and reporting obligations of the various pieces
  of legislation
• Analyzing current practices of MS to ensure
  coherence
• Providing concrete suggestions of streamlining
  those at EU-level, both in practical terms and
  for use in EU-legislation, taking into account
  international legally binding agreements

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Project tasks for the contractor

• Describe current obligations
• Visit a selective, but representative group of
  member States (not less than 12) to explore
  existing working methods and identify best (and
  worst) practices
• Formulate concrete recommendations for ongoing
  revision processes, and assess the costs and
  benefits of the options considered
• Propose an action plan / road map to be followed
  over the coming years containing concrete
  suggestions and actions
• for the implementation of the streamlined
  procedures through future IT reporting tools
• Recommendations for future streamlining of
  legislation
• Organize training sessions open for MS

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Project - timing

• Open call for tender
• Start October 2007
• Duration 12 months
• Proposal for NECD is now scheduled for December
  2007
• So?

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Preliminary streamlining

• Preliminary streamlining by
• Monitoring and reporting obligations in revised
  NECD similar - as far as possible - to those in
  Monitoring Decision 280/2004
• Future changes in reporting deadlines or
  Implementing provisions possible by Comitology

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Revision NECD

• Article 7 - National emission inventories
• Member States shall prepare and annually update
  national emission inventories for the pollutants
  under the scope of this Directive.
• Member States shall establish their emission
  inventories using the methodologies specified in
  Annex IV and ensure that their national emission
  inventories meet the criteria of completeness,
  accuracy, consistency, comparability and
  transparency as specified in Annex VI.

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Revision NECD

• Article 7 - National emission inventories
• 3. Member States shall by 15 January each year
  (year X) report their national emission
  inventories to the Commission and the European
  Environment Agency. They shall report their final
  emission inventories for the previous year but
  three (year X-3) and their provisional emission
  inventories for the previous year but two (year
  X-2).
• The reports of the Member States shall be
  accompanied by a national inventory report.
  Member States shall communicate to the
  Commission, by 15 March each year, their complete
  national inventory report relevant for the
  reporting years specified in Article 7(4).
• Implementing provisions for the reporting of the
  information mentioned in this article are laid
  down in Annex IV.

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Revision NECD

• Article 8 - National Programmes and emission
  projections
• 1. Member States shall, for the assessment of
  projected progress, report to the Commission, by
  15 March 2013 and 15 March 2017 their national
  programme, together with or being part of - the
  information as mentioned in Article 3(2) of
  Decision 280/2004/EC.
• In addition to paragraph 1 Member States shall
  report their national emission projections every
  second year together with or being part of -
  the information as mentioned in Article 3(2) of
  Decision 280/2004/EC. The national projections
  shall be reported for 2020 and - from 2015
  onwards also for 2030.
• Member States shall establish their national
  programmes and projections using the
  methodologies specified in Annex V and ensure
  that their national emission projections meet the
  criteria of completeness, accuracy, consistency,
  comparability and transparency as specified in
  Annex VI.

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Revision NECD

• Annex IV
• Guidance on national emission inventories and
  annual reporting
• with an obligation to use the (revised) Guidebook
• using (copying) essential parts of the (revised)
  Guidelines
• Annex V
• Guidance on National Programmes and emission
  projections
• using (copying) essential parts of the (revised)
  Guidelines
• Annex VI
• Criteria of transparency, consistency,
  comparability, completeness and accuracy (as
  already defined in Guidelines)

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• END
• TFEIP, Dessau
• Eduard Dame
• DG ENV,Unit C5