Perspectives of the NECDrevision towards reporting and projection obligations for EU Member States a

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• Perspectives of the NECD-revision towards
  reporting and projection obligations for EU
  Member States and the EU
• TFEIP, 12-13 June 2006, Amersfoort
• Eduard Dame
• DG ENV,Unit C5

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New Unit DG ENV C5Energy Environment

• Mission
• Connect and integrate energy and environment
  policies
• Deliver projections, scenarios, CBAs on
  atmospheric emissions for IAs related to
  legislative proposals and communications
• Responsible for the implementation and the
  revision of the National Emission Ceilings
  Directive
• Staff
• Head of Unit ff Matti Vainio
• Staff members (in alphabetical order) Scott
  Brockett, Eduard Dame, Jacques Delsalle, Erik
  Tang, Stefaan Vergote. Andre Zuber ?, ?, ?
• Secretary Sarah Asmanis de Schacht

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NECD - Work plan

• Realistically, directive proposal in summer 2007
• Some studies are still ongoing
• Modelling work to start after new baseline has
  been developed deadline September 2006

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First outlines

• 2020 new target year for emission ceilings (role
  of interim year 2015 still under discussion)
• Ceilings in accordance with objectives of
  Thematic Strategy
• Ceilings for SO2, NOx, VOC, NH3 and Primary PM2.5
• No ceilings for methane (first wait for results
  from CLTRAP TF on Hemispheric Transport of Air
  Pollution)
• Stronger focus on emission inventories and
  projections while using comitology

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• Existing NECD reporting provisions

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Existing NECD Article 8

• National emission inventories and emission
  projections (for 2010) yearly by the Member
  States.
• Member States shall use the methodologies in
  Annex III of NECD
• Any updating of the methodologies to be used in
  accordance with Annex III shall be made in
  accordance with the procedure set out in Article
  13(2).
• Article 13(2) is about comitology.

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Existing NECD Annex III

• Methodologies for emission inventories and
  projections
• Member States shall establish emission
  inventories and projections using the
  methodologies agreed upon by the CLTRAP and are
  requested to use the joint EMEP/Corinair
  guidebook in preparing these inventories and
  projections

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Existing NECD National programmes

• In 2002 and 2006 MS shall draw up programmes for
  the progressive reduction with the aim to respect
  the emission ceilings by 2010 at the latest. The
  programmes shall include information on adopted
  and envisaged policies and measures and their
  quantified effects.
• The Commission issued the Recommendations on
  developing and reporting national programmes
  under the NECD at 7 April 2006.
• Deadlines 1 October 2006, deadline for receival
  by Commission is 31 December 2006
• After translation a Contractor will analyze the
  programmes to check completeness, consistency and
  exceedance of ceilings. The contractor will also
  advise the Commission on the effectiveness of the
  instrument national progammes

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• Areas and means for further improvement of
  emission reporting

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General areas for improvement

• Reporting is not timely and complete
• There is a mix of electronic and paper-based
  reporting
• Too many ways to report information (Cion, CDR,
  EMEP, EIONET, CLTRAP)
• Inconsistencies between reporting obligations and
  deadlines under CLRTAP, NECD and GHG monitoring
  decision
• No consistent information in national plans (AQ
  FWD) and national programmes (NECD) and National
  Communications (UNFCCC)
• Insufficient review under LRTAP or NECD
• NECD refers to the CLTRAP methodologies and so
  Community law is automatically modified when
  the Convention updates reporting guidelines
• Slight differences between NECD and CLTRAP
  emissions (inland shipping and aviation, probably
  best left to NECD-revison)

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Means to improve ..

• Legal arrangements
• Detailed reporting requirements should be
  specified in implementing provisions, by
  comitology
• Align reporting dates
• Request national inventory reports to enable
  regular review process, to be set up under NECD
• Consistency in the guidance for reporting
  projections and national plans and programmes
  under AQ FWD, NEC, and CLTRAP will result in more
  transparency and consistency of the information
  given by the Member States

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Means to improve ..

• Institutional arrangements
• Future emission reporting will follow INSPIRE
  principles, which means that MS are responsible
  for the overall data quality, but the EEA would
  undertake some evaluation of the data quality.
• EEA will handle all technical aspects of air
  emission reporting and data exchange under NECD
  receival, completeness check, evaluation of data
  quality, prepare Community report.
• JRC will continue to provide technical support
  and coordination in Community wide guidance for
  emission inventories and follow scientific
  progress in methodologies.
• Other arrangement report in English, French or
  German.

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Revision of EMEP/Corinair Guidebook

• A complete and up to date EMEP/CORINAIR guidebook
  is very important both for the implementation of
  the current National Emission Ceilings Directive
  as well as for the adoption of the proposal for
  the revised NEC Directive
• Close cooperation between DG ENV- EEA and CLTRAP
  bodies
• Work burden mainly for external contractor and
  funded by European Commission
• Work plan to be presented at TFEIP in October
  2006
• Final approval by EB December 2008 and Council by
  comitology
• EEA will edit and host guidebook at their website
  

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Revision of GuidebookFunctions

• Two functions
• Outlines the requirements for minimum quality to
  support countries in complying emission
  inventories complying with legal obligations
• Supports continuous improvement of inventories
• Both functions are important. However, from a
  legal perspective the
• first is more important than the second. Most
  probably there is a need
• to separate the information needed for each
  function.

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Revision of GuidebookStructure

• A way to meet the guidebooks objective and the
  key functions is to develop a systematically
  tiered structure and separate textual information
  from numerical information
• The numerical information could be placed in an
  EFDB providing several values of default emission
  factors related to ranges of process conditions
  and abatement technologies.
• Pilot for EFDB is implemented under the work plan
  of ETC ACCC
• Use of the EFDB also has aspects related to
  adoption of the Guidebook that needs to be
  addressed

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Revision of Guidebook Coverage

• Complementary to 2006 IPPC Guidelines
• Chapters on Good practice
• Methodological choice, inventory strategy and key
  source analysis
• Data collection issues
• QA/QC
• Uncertainties
• Time series consistency
• Inventory improvement programmes
• Projections
• Spatial emission inventories (50x50 km)
• Measurement methodologies and standardized
  approach guidance
• Coverage of all CLTRAP and NECD pollutants,
  including PM2.5
• Coverage of all source categories as defined in
  LTRAP reporting Guidelines (NFR)

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Revision of Guidebook Sectoral updates

• General
• The update should be based on existing knowledge
  laid down in recent and reports or available from
  experts. This means that no additional research
  by the contractor will be needed.
• Already ongoing
• Emission factors for PM2.5 (AEAT)
• In pipeline
• European database for stocks of all types of
  vehicles
• Specific sectors
• Combustion and industry
• Transport, in particular off-road sources
• Agriculture and nature

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Revision of Guidebook Proces

• Proposal will be discussed at the TFEIP/EIONET
  meeting in November 2006
• Project will be made in close collaboration with
  TFEIP, and TFEIP will review the new guidebook
  befor adoption in 2008

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• END
• TFEIP, 12-13 June 2006, Amersfoort
• Eduard Dame
• DG ENV,Unit C5