Annexes to SEC(2011)1406 - Summary of the Impact Assessment

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dossier SEC(2011)1406 - Summary of the Impact Assessment.
document SEC(2011)1406 EN
date November 23, 2011
annex SEC (2008)85) Vol II.

[4] Ratings used: + or – is used to denote positive or negative impacts respectively.  = signifies no impact, +/- low impact, ++/--, medium impact, +++/--- high impact

[5] The use of the reports submitted under Decision No 280/2004/EC for the reporting of the auctioning revenues is not specifically provided for the "aviation" allowances in Article 3d(4), nevertheless, for consistency will be implemented accordingly.

[6]    The detailed elements are based on a draft decision under the Kyoto Protocol

[7]     Rewetting and drainage” is a system of practices for rewetting and draining on land with organic soil that covers a minimum area of 1 hectare. The activity applies to all lands that have been drained and/or rewetted since 1990 and that are not accounted for under any other activity as defined in this annex, where drainage is the direct human induced lowering of the soil water table and rewetting is the direct human-induced partial or total reversal of drainage;

[8]    Events beyond the control and not materially influenced by the country including a demonstration that no land use change has occurred on lands subject to force majeure events, a demonstration that the occurrences were beyond the control of the Party, a demonstration of efforts taken to rehabilitate the lands subject to force majeure events, a demonstration that emissions associated with salvage logging were not excluded.

[9] The objective of the national system, as known under the Kyoto protocl is to guarantee the preparation of an annual greenhouse gas inventory, which complies with the quality criteria set for the inventories, and its reporting to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and the Commission of the European Union. The national system produces the emission and background data of the inventory. Included are also the archiving of the data used in emission calculations, the publication of the results, participation in inventory investigations and the quality management of the inventory.