Annex XXII Schedule and procedure for carrying out the comprehensive review pursuant to Article 30

Secretarial tasks referred to in Article 30(2):

• preparing the work plan for the comprehensive review (or ‘review’);

• compiling and providing the information necessary for the work of the technical experts review team;

• coordinating the review activities as set out in this Regulation, including the communication between the technical experts review team and the designated contact person or persons of the Member State under review, as well as making other practical arrangements;

• monitoring the progress of the review and informing Member States about cases where Member States’ greenhouse gas inventories present significant issues within the meaning of Article 31, in consultation with the Commission;

• compiling, quality controlling and editing the draft and final review reports and communicating them to the Member State concerned and to the European Commission.

Checks referred to in Article 30:

• detailed examination of the inventory estimates including methodologies used by the Member State in the preparation of inventories;

• detailed analysis of the Member State’s implementation of recommendations related to improving inventory estimates as listed in its most recent UNFCCC annual review report made available to that Member State before the submission under review where recommendations have not been implemented;

• detailed analysis of the justification provided by the Member State for not implementing them;

• detailed assessment of the time series consistency of the greenhouse gas emissions estimates;

• detailed assessment whether the recalculations made by a Member State in the given inventory submission as compared to the previous one are transparently reported and made in accordance with the greenhouse gas inventory guidelines;

• follow-up on the results of the initial checks and on any additional information submitted by the Member State under review in response to questions from the technical experts review team and other relevant checks;

• other relevant checks complementing the initial checks.

Details of technical corrections pursuant to Article 31:

• only technical corrections of emission estimates outside the LULUCF sector and necessary technical corrections of accounted LULUCF emissions and removals shall be included in the review report referred to in Article 32 of this Regulation, accompanied by evidence based justification. During the review in 2027, technical corrections shall cover the emissions and removals in the years 2021-2025 and the LULUCF accounting period 2021-2025;

• during the review in 2032, technical corrections shall cover the emissions and removals in the years 2026-2030 and the LULUCF accounting period 2026-2030.

• in case a technical correction of an emission estimate outside the LULUCF sector exceed the threshold of significance for at least one year of the inventory under review but not for all the years of the time series, the technical correction shall be calculated for all the other years under review in order to ensure time series’ consistency.