# Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1044 of 8 May 2020 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to values for global warming potentials and the inventory guidelines and with regard to the Union inventory system and repealing Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 666/2014 (Text with EEA relevance), Article 5: Gap filling

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. The Commission estimates for completing the inventory data submitted by a Member State as referred to in Article 37(5) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 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 and:
(i) that Member State has submitted an approximated greenhouse gas inventory for the year X – 1 pursuant to Article 26(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 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 26(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, but the Union has estimated approximated greenhouse gas emissions for the year X – 1 for that Member State in accordance with Article 26(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, on the data from that Union approximated greenhouse gas inventory;
(iii) the use of the data from the approximated greenhouse gas inventory of the Member State is not possible or may lead to a highly inaccurate estimation, for missing estimates in the energy sector, on the energy statistics data obtained in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
(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 methodologies consistent with the technical advice on gap filling in Section 2.2.3 of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (Vol. 1) using, where appropriate, European statistics;
(b) where an estimate of an emission by source or removal by sink for the relevant category was subject to technical corrections in accordance with Article 38(2)(d) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 in the latest review prior to the submission 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;
(c) where a consistent time series of reported estimates for the relevant source category is not available, on estimation methodologies consistent with the technical advice on gap filling in Section 2.2.3 of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (Vol. 1).
2. The Commission shall prepare the estimates referred to in paragraph 1 by 31 March of the reporting year in consultation and close cooperation with the Member State concerned.
3. The Member State concerned shall use the estimates referred to in paragraph 1 for its submission of national inventories to the UNFCCC Secretariat pursuant to Article 26(4) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/1044/article/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1044/article-5
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