1.Member States may require the operator and aircraft operator to use electronic templates or specific file formats for submission of monitoring plans and changes to the monitoring plan, as well as for submission of annual emissions reports, tonne-kilometre reports, verification reports and improvement reports.
Those templates or file format specifications established by the Member States shall, at least, contain the information contained in electronic templates or file format specifications published by the Commission.
2.When establishing the templates or file-format specifications referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1, Member States may choose one or both of the following options:
(a)file-format specifications based on XML, such as the EU ETS reporting language published by the Commission for use in connection with advanced automated systems;
(b)templates published in a form usable by standard office software, including spreadsheets and word processor files.