Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 666/2014Show full title

Article 4 U.K. Gap filling

1. The Commission estimates for data missing from a Member State's greenhouse gas inventory as referred to in Article 9(2) of Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 shall be based on the following methodologies and data:

(a) where a Member State has submitted in the previous reporting year a consistent time series of estimates for the relevant source category that has not been subject to adjustments under Article 5(2) of the Kyoto Protocol and any of the following occurs:

(i)

that Member State has submitted an approximated greenhouse gas inventory for the year X – 1 pursuant to Article 8(1) of Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 that includes the missing estimate, on the data from that approximated greenhouse gas inventory;

(ii)

that Member State has not submitted an approximated greenhouse gas inventory for the year X – 1 under Article 8(1) of Regulation (EU) No 525/2013, but the Union has estimated approximated greenhouse gas emissions for the year X – 1 for the Member States in accordance with Article 8(1) of Regulation (EU) No 525/2013, on the data from that Union approximated greenhouse gas inventory;

(iii)

the use of the data from the approximated greenhouse gas inventory is not possible or may lead to a highly inaccurate estimation, for missing estimates in the energy sector, on the data obtained in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council(1);

(iv)

the use of the data from the approximated greenhouse gas inventory is not possible or may lead to a highly inaccurate estimation, for missing estimates in non-energy sectors, on estimation based on the technical guidance on methodologies for adjustments under Article 5(2) of the Kyoto Protocol without application of the conservativeness factor defined in that guidance.

(b) where an estimate for the relevant source category was subject to adjustments under Article 5(2) of the Kyoto Protocol in previous years and the Member State concerned has not submitted a revised estimate, on the basic adjustment method used by the expert review team as set out in the technical guidance on methodologies for adjustments under Article 5(2) of the Kyoto Protocol without application of the conservativeness factor defined in that guidance;

(c) where an estimate for the relevant category was subject to technical corrections under point (c) of Article 19(3) of Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 in previous years and the Member State concerned has not submitted a revised estimate, on the method used by the technical expert review team to calculate the technical correction;

(d) where a consistent time series of reported estimates for the relevant source category is not available and the estimate of the source category has not been subject to adjustments under Article 5(2) of the Kyoto Protocol, on the technical guidance for adjustments, without application of the conservativeness factor defined in that guidance.

2. The Commission shall prepare the estimates referred to in paragraph 1 by 31 March of the reporting year in consultation with the Member State concerned.

3. The Member State concerned shall use the estimates referred to in paragraph 1 for its national submission to the UNFCCC Secretariat of 15 April to ensure consistency between the Union greenhouse gas inventory and the Member States' greenhouse gas inventories.

(1)

Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on energy statistics (OJ L 304, 14.11.2008, p. 1).