Directive 2009/31/EC is amended as follows:

1. (1)

   in Article 27, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

   1.

   Every three years the Member States shall submit to the Commission a report on the implementation of this Directive, including the register referred to in point (b) of Article 25(1). The first report shall be sent to the Commission by 30 June 2011. The report shall be drawn up on the basis of a questionnaire or outline adopted by the Commission in the form of implementing acts. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 30(2). The questionnaire or outline shall be sent to Member States at least six months before the deadline for the submission of the report.

2. (2)

   Article 29 is replaced by the following:

   Article 29Amendments to the Annexes

   The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 29a to amend the Annexes in order to adapt them to technical and scientific progress. Such adaptation may not result in a lowering of the level of safety provided by the criteria contained in Annex I or in a weakening of the monitoring principles contained in Annex II.

3. (3)

   the following Article is inserted:

   Article 29aExercise of the delegation

   1

   The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred on the Commission subject to the conditions laid down in this Article.

   2

   The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 29 shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of five years from 4 July 2018. The Commission shall draw up a report in respect of the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the five-year period. The report shall be submitted to the European Parliament and Council. The delegation of power shall be tacitly extended for periods of an identical duration, unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension not later than three months before the end of each period.

   3

   The delegation of power referred to in Article 29 may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force.

   4

   Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each Member State in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making21.

   5

   As soon as it adopts a delegated act, the Commission shall notify it simultaneously to the European Parliament and to the Council.

   6

   A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 29 shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.

4. (4)

   Article 30 is replaced by the following:

   Article 30Committee procedure

   1

   The Commission shall be assisted by the Climate Change Committee established by Article 26 of Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council22. That committee shall be a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council23.

   2

   Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.