
Article 1 
Member States shall use the questionnaire set out in the Annex for the purpose of drawing up the annual report to be submitted to the Commission pursuant to Article 21(1) of Directive 2003/87/EC.
Article 2 
The first report, which is due for submission by 30 June 2005, shall cover the four-month period from 1 January 2005 to 30 April 2005.
Subsequent reports shall be submitted to the Commission by 30 June each year and shall cover the preceding calendar year from 1 January to 31 December commencing with the calendar year 2005.
Article 3 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 4 May 2005.
For the Commission
Stavros DIMAS
Member of the Commission
ANNEX
PART 1
1.  1. Name of contact person:
 2. Official title of contact person:
 3. Name and department of organisation:
 4. Address:
 5. International telephone number:
 6. International telefax number:
 7. E-mail:

2. Question 2.1 is to be answered in the first report and in subsequent reports if changes were made during the reporting period: 2.1. Please list the competent authorities and their tasks.

3. Questions 3.1 to 3.3 are to be answered in the first report of each trading period and in subsequent reports if changes were made during the reporting period: 3.1. In answering this question, use Table 1 of Part 2 of this Annex. It should furthermore be noted that the same installation can carry out activities falling under different subheadings. Indicate all relevant activities (even if this means that the installation is counted more than once). 3.2. How many of the combustion installations have a rated thermal input that exceeds 20 MW but is below 50 MW? In total, how many CO2 equivalents were emitted by these installations in the reporting period?
 3.3. How many of the covered installations emit less than 10 000 tonnes CO2 equivalents, 10 000 to 25 000, 25 000 to 50 000, 50 000 to 500 000 or more than 500 000 tonnes CO2 equivalents annually? By percentage, how are the total emissions covered by the Directive distributed over these classes?
 3.4. In answering this question, use Table 2 of Part 2 of this Annex. 3.5. Any information given in reply to this question will not be published. 3.6. Is there any other relevant information concerning the coverage of installations and activities in your country? If so, please specify.

4. Questions 4.1 to 4.4 are to be answered in the first report and in subsequent reports if changes were made during the reporting period: 4.1. What measures have been taken to ensure that operators comply with the requirements of their greenhouse gas emissions permits?
 4.2. How does national law ensure that the conditions of and the procedure for the issue of a permit are fully coordinated where more than one competent authority is involved? How does this coordination work in practice?
 4.3. What measures have been taken to ensure that, where installations carry out activities that are included in Annex I to Directive 96/61/EC, the conditions of, and procedure for, the issue of a greenhouse gas emissions permit are coordinated with those for the permit provided for in that Directive? Have the requirements laid down in Articles 5, 6 and 7 of Directive 2003/87/EC been integrated into the procedures provided for in Directive 96/61/EC? If so, how was this integration performed?
 4.4. What are the legislative provisions, procedures and practice concerning updating of permit conditions by the competent authority pursuant to Article 7 of Directive 2003/87/EC?
 4.5. How many permits were updated during the reporting period because of a change in the nature or functioning, or extension, of installations made by operators as specified under Article 7 of Directive 2003/87/EC? Please provide for each category (capacity increase, capacity decrease, change in process type, etc.) how many permits were updated.
 4.6. Is there any other relevant information concerning the issue of permits for installations in your country? If so, please specify.

5. For the first report, complete information may not be available for questions 5.1 to 5.7. Reply to those questions as fully as possible in the first report. 5.1. In answering this question, use Table 3 of Part 2 of this Annex. The information required in Table 3 need only be given for installations with annual reported emissions of more than 500 000 tonnes CO2 per year. 5.2. In answering this question, use columns A to I of Table 3 of Part 2 of this Annex. The information required in Table 3 need only be given for installations with annual reported emissions of less than 500 000 tonnes CO2 per year. 5.3. In answering this question, use Table 4 of Part 2 of this Annex. 5.4. In answering this question, use Table 5 of Part 2 of this Annex. 5.5. How much CO2 was transferred from installations? Please indicate the number of tonnes of CO2 transferred pursuant to section 4.2.2.1.2 of Annex I to Decision 2004/156/EC and the number of installations that transferred CO2 for each activity listed in Annex I to Directive 2003/87/EC.
 5.6. The organic fraction of any waste combusted or used as input material should be included here. 5.7. What was the total quantity of CO2 emissions from waste used as fuel or input material? Please submit a percentage breakdown of any such emissions per waste type.
 5.8. Question 5.9 is to be answered in the first report and in subsequent reports if changes were made during the reporting period: 5.9. What measures have been taken to coordinate reporting requirements with any existing reporting requirements in order to minimise the reporting burden on businesses?
 5.10. Is there any other relevant information concerning the application of the monitoring and reporting guidelines in your country? If so, please specify.

6. Questions 6.1 to 6.4 are to be answered in the first report and in subsequent reports if changes were made during the reporting period: 6.1. Please describe the framework for verification of emissions from installations, in particular the role of the competent authorities and other verifiers in the verification process.
 6.2. If the documents are available on the Internet, it is sufficient to include a link to the website. 6.3. Are verifiers who have been accredited in another Member State subject to an additional accreditation process before being able to carry out verifications? If yes, please briefly describe the procedure and why it is considered necessary.
 6.4. If the documents are available on the Internet, it is sufficient to include a link to the website. 6.5. In answering this question, use Table 6 of Part 2 of this Annex. 6.6. Did the competent authority carry out any independent checks on verified reports? If yes, please describe how additional checks were undertaken and/or how many reports were checked.
 6.7. Indicate any corrections in Table 6 of Part 2. 6.8. Is there any other relevant information concerning the arrangements for verification in your country? If so, please specify.

7. Questions 7.1 and 7.2 are to be answered in the first report and in subsequent reports if changes were made during the reporting period: 7.1. Please provide any terms and conditions required to be signed by account holders and provide a description of the identity check of persons undertaken before creating holding accounts (cf. Regulation (EC) No 2216/2004 for a standardised and secured system of registries).
 7.2. What fees are charged, if any? Please give details.
 7.3. What steps were taken pursuant to Article 28(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2216/2004 to prevent reoccurrences of discrepancies discovered by the Community Independent Transaction Log?
 7.4. Please provide a summary of all security alerts relevant to the national registry which have occurred during the reporting period, how they were addressed and the time taken for resolution.
 7.5. Please state how many minutes for each month of the reporting period the national registry was unavailable to its users (a) due to scheduled downtime, and (b) due to unforeseen problems.
 7.6. Please list and provide details on each upgrade to the national registry scheduled for the next reporting period.
 7.7. Is there any other relevant information concerning the operation of registries in your country? If so, please specify.

8. Questions 8.1 to 8.2 are to be answered in the first report after each notification and allocation procedure under Articles 9 and 11 of Directive 2003/87/EC: 8.1. Looking back at the completed allocation process, please describe the main lessons learnt by your authorities, and how you think they will influence your approach to the next allocation process?
 8.2. Do you have any suggestions for the improvement of future notification and allocation processes for the EU as a whole?
 8.3. In answering this question, use Table 2 of Part 2 of this Annex. 8.4. How many allowances were left in any new entrants reserve at the end of the reporting period, and what share do they represent of the original reserve?
 8.5. If auctioning was used as an allocation method, how many auctions were held during the reporting period, how many allowances were auctioned during each auction, what share do they represent of the total quantity of allowances for the trading period, what was the price per allowance at each auction and what use was made of allowances not purchased at the auction(s)? Please also list the transaction identification codes associated with the allocation of auctioned allowances.
 8.6. Question 8.7 is to be answered in the first report following the end of the trading periods set out in Article 11(1) and (2) of Directive 2003/87/EC: 8.7. Were allowances remaining in the new entrants’ reserve at the end of the trading period cancelled or auctioned?
 8.8. Is there any other relevant information concerning the arrangements for allocation, new entrants and closures in your country? If so, please specify.

9.  9.1. In all cases where an account in the registry was closed because there was no reasonable prospect of further allowances being surrendered by the installation’s operator, please describe why there was no reasonable further prospect and state the amount of outstanding allowances.
 9.2. Is there any other relevant information concerning the surrender of allowances by operators in your country? If so, please specify.

10. Questions 10.1 and 10.2 are to be answered annually starting with the report submitted in 2006 as regards CERs and starting with the report submitted in 2009 as regards ERUs: 10.1. How many CERs and ERUs were used by operators pursuant to Article 11(a) of Directive 2003/87/EC? Please list, for CERs and ERUs separately, the sum of units used and the total number of operators who used them.
 10.2. Question 10.3 is to be answered in the first report and in subsequent reports if changes were made during the reporting period: 10.3. What measures have been taken to ensure that relevant international criteria and guidelines, including those contained in the World Commission on Dams year 2000 Final Report, will be respected during the development of hydroelectric power production projects with a generating capacity exceeding 20 MW?
 10.4. Is there any other relevant information concerning the use of ERUs and CERs in the Community scheme in your country? If so, please specify.

11.  11.1. Where penalties were imposed pursuant to Article 16(1) for infringements of national provisions, please state the relevant national provisions and the penalties imposed.
 11.2. In answering this question, it is sufficient to provide a reference to the publication of the names under Article 16(2). 11.3. Is there any other relevant information related to compliance with the Directive in your country? If so, please specify.

12. Questions 12.1 to 12.3 are only to be answered in the first report and in subsequent reports if changes were made during the reporting period: 12.1. What is the legal status given to an allowance for the purposes of accounting, financial legislation and taxation?
 12.2. If your Member State allocates allowances other than for free, please explain how such allocation is made (e.g. the way in which auctioning is undertaken)?
 12.3. If your Member State allocates allowances for payment, is VAT due on the transaction?
 12.4. Is there any other relevant information concerning the legal nature of allowances and their fiscal treatment in your country? If so, please specify.

13.  13.1. Where are decisions relating to the allocation of allowances, information on project activities in which a Member State participates or authorises private or public entities to participate, and reports of emissions required under the greenhouse gas emissions permit and held by the competent authority made available to the public?
 13.2. Is there any other relevant information concerning the access to information pursuant to Article 17 in your country? If so, please specify.

14.  14.1. Are there any particular implementation issues that give rise to concerns in your country? If so, please specify.

PART 2




 Member State:
 Reporting period:

Annex I activities Number of installations
Energy activities
E1 Combustion installations with a rated thermal input exceeding 20 MW (excepting hazardous or municipal waste installations) 
E2 Mineral oil refineries 
E3 Coke ovens 
Production and processing of ferrous metals
F1 Metal ore (including sulphide ore) roasting or sintering installations 
F2 Installations for the production of pig iron or steel (primary or secondary fusion) including continuous casting, with a capacity exceeding 2,5 tonnes per hour 
Mineral industry
M1 Installations for the production of cement clinker in rotary kilns with a production capacity exceeding 500 tonnes per day or lime in rotary kilns with a production capacity exceeding 50 tonnes per day or in other furnaces with a production capacity exceeding 50 tonnes per day 
M2 Installations for the manufacture of glass including glass fibre with a melting capacity exceeding 20 tonnes per day 
M3 Installations for the manufacture of ceramic products by firing, in particular roofing tiles, bricks, refractory bricks, tiles, stoneware or porcelain, with a production capacity exceeding 75 tonnes per day, and/or with a kiln capacity exceeding 4 m3 and with a setting density per kiln exceeding 300 kg/m3 
Other activities
 Industrial plants for the production of 
O1 
(a) pulp from timber or other fibrous materials
 
O2 
(b) paper and board with a production capacity exceeding 20 tonnes per day
 






 Member State:
 Reporting period:

A B C D E F G H I J
Installation Operator Main Annex I activity Other Annex I activities Main non-Annex I activity Change compared with installations included in NAP Allowances allocated or issued Transaction identification code
Permit ID code Installation ID code Name Quantity Year(s)
    










 Member State:
 Reporting period:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N
Tier chosen Value
Installation Total annual emissions Activity data Emission factor Net calorific value Oxidation factor Fuel or activity type Emission factor Net calorific value Oxidation factor
Permit ID code Installation ID code Main Annex I activity t CO2 Tier Tier Tier Tier Value Unit Value Unit %
    












 Member State:
 Reporting period:

A B C D E F G H I J
Installation Annex I activity Total annual emissions Affected monitoring parameter Original method approved Temporary method applied Reason for temporary change Period of temporary suspension until restoration of appropriate tier method
Beginning End
Permit ID code Installation ID code t CO2 Tier Tier Month/year Month/year
    








 Member State:
 Reporting period:

A B C D
Main Annex I activity < 50 000 t CO2e 50 000 to 500 000 t CO2e > 500 000 t CO2e
E1 
E2 
E3 
F1 
F2 
M1 
M2 
M3 
O1 
O2 






 Member State:
 Reporting period:

A B C D E F G
Installation Emissions reported from installations Allowances surrendered Allowances blocked in operator holding account Reason for non-validation of emission report Correction of verified emissions by competent authority
Permit ID code Installation ID code t CO2 t CO2 t CO2 t CO2
   

