Greenhouse gas emissions, climate change: mechanism for monitoring and reporting

The Council took note of the presentation by the Commission of its recent proposal for a regulation on a mechanism for monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and for reporting other information at national and Union level relevant to climate change, which will replace the current monitoring mechanism established under decision 280/2004/EC.

The aim of the proposal is to enhance the monitoring, reporting and review framework within the EU, in the light of lessons learned from implementation of the current decision, to take account of developments at both Union and international level, and to enable further policy development.

In particular, the proposal incorporates new reporting and monitoring requirements arising from the 2009 Climate and Energy Package and the relevant objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy, as well as requirements arising from recent decisions adopted under the UNFCCC.