Activites

• 2004/02/19 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 2004/280
  • OJ L 049 19.02.2004, p. 0001-0010
• 2004/02/12 Final act signed
• 2004/02/11 End of procedure in Parliament
• #2558
• 2004/01/26 Council Meeting
• 2004/01/26 Act adopted by Council after Parliament's 1st reading
• #X019
• 2003/10/27 Council Meeting
• 2003/10/21 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0443/2003 summary

    The European Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Guido SACCONI (PES, Italy) making several amendments to the Commission's proposals. Parliament has deleted the provision stating that 1995 will be the base year for measuring emissions reduction. A number of other amendments were adopted on monitoring and measurement. In addition: - the Community's national registry may be used to hold ERUs and CERs generated by projects funded by the Community, thereby providing a stimulus for Community action in third countries to address climate change more widely, and may be maintained in a consolidated system together with Member States' registries; - each Member State must prepare a report on the demonstration of progress achieved by 2005, and submit this to UNFCC Secretariat by 1 January 2006; - the Community and each Member State must submit a report on the additional period for fulfilling commitments upon the expiry of that period. Parliament did not vote through several committee amendments, notably those relating to Member States that fail to fulfil reporting obligations as well and the need for a guide to good practice. Progress reports will be made on a two yearly basis, as originally required in the Commission proposal.�

• 2003/10/20 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 2003/09/09 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0290/2003
• #2517
• 2003/06/13 Council Meeting
  • 2517 summary

    The Council held a policy debate on a proposal for a Decision for a monitoring mechanism of Community greenhouse emissions and the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. Ministers were asked by the Presidency to focus their interventions on the following issues: - Time-plan : all delegations expressed their wish for the Council to reach political agreement on a common position at its next meeting (Environment) in October 2003; - Base year : the Kyoto Protocol allows a choice between 1990 and 1995 as base year for the calculation of the initial assigned amount of a Party, for the three groups of fluorinated gases that are part of its scope. The majority of Member States showed a preference for 1995 as base year. Some delegations wished to keep the flexibility provided in the Kyoto Protocol for choosing the base year; - European Climate Change Programme (ECCP) : although this was not included in the initial Commission's proposal, the majority of delegations have considered positively the possibility of making the ECCP a national programme for the Community. A small group of delegations, as well as the Commission, expressed their doubts on the benefits of its inclusion in the proposed Decision. A number of Acceding States took the floor to express their wish that the possible inclusion of the Programme in the proposal should be done taking into account their particular needs and individual status vis-à-vis the Kyoto Protocol.�

• #2491
• 2003/03/04 Council Meeting
  • 2491
• 2003/02/10 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2003/02/05 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2003)0051 summary

    PURPOSE : to replace Council Decision 93/389/EEC and to establish a monitoring mechanism for Community Greenhouse gas emissions and the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. CONTENT : the aims of the proposed revision of Decision 93/389/EEC are to: - reflect in the monitoring mechanism reporting obligations and guidelines for the implementation of the UN Framework convention on Climate Change ("UNFCCC") and the Kyoto Protocol, on which the political agreements and legal decisions were taken at the seventh Conference of the Parties ("COP7") in Marrakech; - provide for further information on emission forecasts at Member State and Community-level, and harmonisation of these emission forecasts, in the light of experience with the current Monitoring Mechanism; - address reporting requirements and implementation relating to the burden-sharing between the Community and its Member States. The European Community ratified the Kyoto Protocol on 31 May 2002. This proposal will help the Community and the Member States comply with reporting requirements under both the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol and in general enhance the timeliness, consistency, accuracy, completeness, transparency and comparability of reported information. The Monitoring Mechanism Decision 93/389/EEC provides for the detail of obligations to be implemented through guidelines adopted by comitology, taking account of the rather technical nature of the agreed UNFCCC guidelines. This proposal makes similar provision, although it is considered appropriate to provide for a number of more important provisions in the decision itself. In order to limit the reporting tasks of Member States, under the new reporting requirements, only data that is of interest at Community level will have to be provided. In addition, adjustments will be made to the frequency of data submission. Following the structure of the Kyoto Protocol and the related UNFCCC guidelines, different reporting requirements will be addressed by distinguishing annual and periodical reporting obligations. Member States' Climate Change programmes and projections do not change on an annual basis and it is therefore proposed to shift the annual reporting to periodical reporting. However, more detailed provisions are included on the type of projections because experience with the current provisions has shown the need for more comprehensive and detailed data in this area. The due date for the annual data submission by Member States to the Commission is changed from 31 December to the following 15 January. Decision 93/389/EEC has already been substantially amended by Decision 99/296/EC. The extensive further amendments proposed to Decision 93/389/EEC widen its scope to cover areas including registries, flexible mechanisms and co-operation in procedures under the Kyoto Protocol. For these reasons it is considered appropriate to replace it, rather than to amend it. A correlation table is annexed to the proposal.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/environment/', 'title': 'Environment'}],

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2003)0051
• Debate in Council: 2491
• Debate in Council: 2517
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0290/2003
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0443/2003
• : Decision 2004/280
• : OJ L 049 19.02.2004, p. 0001-0010

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)