{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1208/annex-XXII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1208/annex-XXII.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2020/1208",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1208 of 7 August 2020 on structure, format, submission processes and review of information reported by Member States pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 749/2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1208",
  "path": "annex/XXII",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "XXII",
  "heading": "Schedule and procedure for carrying out the comprehensive review pursuant to Article 30",
  "text": "Secretarial tasks referred to in Article 30(2):\npreparing the work plan for the comprehensive review (or ‘review’);\ncompiling and providing the information necessary for the work of the technical experts review team;\ncoordinating 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;\nmonitoring 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;\ncompiling, quality controlling and editing the draft and final review reports and communicating them to the Member State concerned and to the European Commission.\nChecks referred to in Article 30:\ndetailed examination of the inventory estimates including methodologies used by the Member State in the preparation of inventories;\ndetailed 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;\ndetailed analysis of the justification provided by the Member State for not implementing them;\ndetailed assessment of the time series consistency of the greenhouse gas emissions estimates;\ndetailed 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;\nfollow-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;\nother relevant checks complementing the initial checks.\nDetails of technical corrections pursuant to Article 31:\nonly 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;\nduring the review in 2032, technical corrections shall cover the emissions and removals in the years 2026-2030 and the LULUCF accounting period 2026-2030.\nin 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.\nTable: Schedule for the 2027 and 2032 comprehensive reviews referred to in Article 34\nActivity\nTask description\nTiming\nPreparation of review material for the 2027 and 2032 comprehensive inventory reviews\nMaterial for the 2027 and 2032 comprehensive inventory reviews shall be prepared based on 15 April submissions of the Member States.\n15 April — 25 April\nDesk based review and communication of questions to Memeber States\nThe technical expert review team (TERT) shall perform checks and compile questions to Member States based on 15 April submissions of the Member States. Questions shall be sent to Member States.\n25 April— 13 May\nResponse to desk-review questions\nMember States shall respond to the TERT’s questions from the desk based review.\n13 May — 27 May\nCentralised review and communication of additional questions to Member States\nThe TERT shall meet to discuss responses from Member States, identify cross-cutting issues, ensure consistency of findings across Member States, agree upon recommendations, prepare potential technical corrections, etc. Additional questions shall be identified and sent to the Member States.\nOne week in the time period 25 May — 15 June\nResponse to additional questions and potential technical corrections\nMember States shall provide answers to additional questions and potential cases of technical corrections during the centralised review.\nDuring the centralised review\nCommunication of draft technical corrections\nDraft technical corrections shall be sent to Member States.\nOne day after the end of the centralised review\nResponse to draft technical corrections\nMember States shall respond to draft technical corrections or provide revised estimates.\n15 days after the end of the centralised review\nCompilation of draft review reports\nThe TERT shall compile draft review reports, including any unresolved issues and draft recommendations and, where applicable, details and justification for draft technical corrections.\n21 days after the end of the centralized review\nPotential in-country visit\nIn exceptional cases, where significant quality issues continue to exist in the inventories reported by Member States or the TERT is unable to resolve questions, an ad-hoc country visit may be undertaken.\n29 June — 9 August\nCommunication of draft review reports to Member States\nDraft review reports shall be sent to Member States\n21 days after the end of the centralised review\nComments to draft review reports\nMember States shall provide comments on the draft review reports, mentioning any comments they wish to include in the final review report.\n40 days after receipt of the draft review report\nFinalisation of review reports\nInformal communication with Member States to follow up any outstanding issues if needed. The TERT shall finalise the review reports. The review reports shall be quality checks and edited.\n75 days after the end of the centralised review\nSubmission of Final Review Reports\nThe final review reports shall be sent to the Commission and to the Member States.\n83 days after the end of the centralised review",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/1208/annex/XXII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:27.387157+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}