
DECISION No 529/2013/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 21 May 2013 on accounting rules on greenhouse gas emissions and removals resulting from activities relating to land use, land-use change and forestry and on information concerning actions relating to those activities (revoked) 

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Subject matter and scope
Article 1 
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Definitions
Article 2 
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Obligation to prepare and maintain LULUCF accounts
Article 3 
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General accounting rules
Article 4 
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Accounting rules for afforestation, reforestation and deforestation
Article 5 
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Accounting rules for forest management
Article 6 
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Accounting rules for harvested wood products
Article 7 
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Accounting rules for cropland management, grazing land management, revegetation, and wetland drainage and rewetting
Article 8 
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Accounting rules for natural disturbances
Article 9 
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Information on LULUCF actions
Article 10 
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Review
Article 11 
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Exercise of the delegation
Article 12 
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Entry into force
Article 13 
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Article 14 
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ANNEX I

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ANNEX II

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ANNEX III
FIRST ORDER DECAY FUNCTION AND DEFAULT HALF-LIFE VALUES REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 7

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ANNEX IV
INDICATIVE MEASURES THAT MAY BE INCLUDED IN THE INFORMATION ON LULUCF ACTIONS SUBMITTED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 10(2)(d)
(a) Measures related to cropland management such as: 

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(b) Measures related to grazing land management and pasture improvement such as: 

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(c) Measures to improve the management of agricultural organic soils, in particular, peat lands, such as: 

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(e) Measures related to existing or partly drained mires, such as: 

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(g) Measures related to forestry activities such as: 

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ANNEX V

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ANNEX VI

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ANNEX VII
CALCULATION OF BACKGROUND LEVEL OF NATURAL DISTURBANCES
1. For the calculation of the background level Member States shall provide information on historic levels of emissions caused by natural disturbances. In doing this, Member States shall: 

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2. The background level shall be calculated for those activities listed in Article 3(1), where the Member State intends to apply the Natural Disturbances provisions, as the average of the 1990-2009 time series excluding all years where abnormal levels of emissions were recorded, i.e. excluding all statistical outliers. The identification of statistical outliers shall be made following an iterative process described as follows: 

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