STREAMLINING CLIMATE CHANGE AND AIR

POLLUTION REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

TFEIP – Dublin23 – 24 October2007

Project Task Leaders:

Project management; MS capacity analysis; liaison with LRTAP, CCC & WGI, WGII

In-country review; liaison with IPCC & E-PRTR

Innovation, and liaison with WG III

INSPIRE issues

Objectives:

1. Identify opportunities to streamline reporting under EU level air and climate change instruments.

2. Develop streamlining scenarios to guide and facilitate coherent developments in reporting requirements in the future (road map)

3. Formulate recommendations for further improvement of the MM 280/2004/EC which improve data quality, minimize burdens on Member States and introduce innovation that will enable better future use of reported data

Scope

1. Monitor Decision 280/2004/EC

2. NEC Directive 2001/81/EC

3. Reporting to CLTRAP

4. EU ETS 2003/87/EC

5. E-PRTR 166/2006/EC

6. IPPC Directive 96/61/EC

7. Fuel quality directive

8. Monitoring CO2 from new cars

9. Fluorinated greenhouse gases 842/2006

10. Ozone depleting substances 2037/2000

11. Aarhus Convention

Streamlining opportunities

1. Terminology

2. Temporal and spatial scales

3. Reporting methodologies

4. Reporting deadlines

5. Submission procedures

6. Infrastructure in the countries

• Competent authorities

• Responsibilities

• Resources

Streamlining Project - Tasks

Project Time Table

October 07

Mar 08

Dec 07

April 08

Jun 08

July 08

Task 1 – Identify inter-related reporting

The outputs of Task 1 will be a Background Document:

Describing the current status of emissions and projections reporting, and identifying the strengths and weaknesses of present systems,

Identifying (and quantifying where possible) the obligations, costs and practical reporting issues for both data-requesting and data-providing parties.

Identifying the obligations for providing data under other legislation and policies (e.g. INSPIRE)

Presenting initial stakeholder mapping including responsibilities and linkages within and across legislation.

Hierarchy of policy instruments ?

MM; NECD

ETS

EPRTR

IPPC

WID LCP …

National Reporting

Sub-National Reporting

Specific ReportingEnabling national reportingSED

Task 2 – MS capacity Analysis Enquiry

The outputs of Task2 will include:

Question sets for visits and a questionnaire for the remaining countries.

Input to the Interim Report from:oVisit reports for 12 countries;oQuestionnaires for the remaining 15 countries;oInformation for the 27 country briefs.

Task 3 – Refine the Strategy

The outputs of Task 3 will include:

A documented strategy, together with a schedule, with the options to align the legal instruments, currently under review, that bear on the EU and Member States to reflect better reporting procedures; Identifying any other legal instruments that should be revised – with an indication of the issues to consider in assessing the costs and impacts;

A strategy for advocating the use of better reporting procedures with liaison groups;

A paper describing better reporting practice and tools and initiatives that might be used - including IT based tools – and R&D recommendations.

Utopia

TCCCA = 100% for:

1. Emission inventory data

2. Projections data

3. Point source data

4. Policies and measures

5. Activity data

Project vision

Instrument Revision 1

Instrument Revision 2

Low Cost/Poor Quality

High Quality/ High Costs

EU MM Revision

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Option 1

Option 3

Option 4

Acceptable Quality/No Increase in Costs

GOAL

Instrument Revision 3

Instrument Revision 4

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Possible Scenario

Option 2

Option 4

2007 2008 2010 2015

Task 4 - Advise on revision of the Monitoring mechanism

The outputs of Task 3 will include:

Suggested text for inclusion in a revised MM decision.

Explanatory text suitable for use any preamble prepared to support the introduction of a Commission proposal to Member States.

An estimation of the likely costs and impacts of the options presented.

Task 5 - Strengthen MS infrastructure

The outputs of Task 5 will include:

• Information for the final report and country briefs on the reporting practice in countries, common problems, areas and opportunities for streamlining etc.;

• Presentational materials for training sessions and meetings with other groups;

• Improved communication within the emissions reporting community.

Communication

1. CIRCA Website

2. With the Commission – manage priotities

3. Engage with MS (technical/political level)

4. Deal with comments to draft docu,ents

Working groups liaison and points of contact

Basis for monitoring – Annex III

Member States shall establish their emission inventories and projections using the methodologies specified in Annex III.

Annex III: Member States shall establish inventories and projections using the methodologies agreed upon by the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and are requested to use the joint EMEP-Corinair Guidebook in preparing these inventories and projections

Update of Annex III possible by comitology.Draft Monitoring Decision available;

New Annex III - 2001/81/EC

Key provisions of voluntary CLTRAP Guidelines will be binding:

Member States shall:

use the EMEP/Corinair Guidebook (latest version)

Apply certain calculation methods

Use certain reporting formats

Provide a National Inventory Report

National Emission Ceilings Directive 2001/81/ECObligations for Member States

Member States have to their respect national emission ceilings for SO2, NOx, VOC’s and NH3 by 2010 and later years. New ceilings for those substances and PM2.5 for 2020 and later years .

Member States report each year their national emission inventories and their emission projections for 2010.Extra substances: TSP, PM10, CO (HM and POPs?)Projections every 2 years for ceiling-substances for 2020 and every new 10 years period

Deadline: 31 December. Final emissions for the previous year but one and their provisional emissions for the previous year.

New deadline: 15 January