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Monitoring, Reporting and Verification in the EU ETS: Status and Implementation

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. Monitoring…. at the heart of the EU ETS.

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Monitoring, Reporting and Verification in the EU ETS: Status and Implementation

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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?

  10. 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

  11. MRG Next Steps • EU-MRG are the legally binding framework for monitoring and reporting within the EU-ETS • 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

  12. 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

  13. 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: marco.loprieno@cec.eu.int

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