S.L. 543.1 Art. 7Report on national greenhouse gas emissions. 1. that the (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) 2. the inventory methods gas 3. 4. Malta to by all national with 5. capacity 6. of persons

It shall be the duty of the Minister to, every year, and by not later than two (2) months after the date of submission of the national greenhouse gas inventory report relating to that year as BY SOURCES AND REMOVALS BY SINKS [

established pursuant to the UNFCCC, lay before Parliament the report on national greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks. BY SOURCES AND REMOVALS BY SINKS

SCHEDULE 1 Criteria for the operation of a national greenhouse gas inventory system. The national greenhouse gas inventory system shall be operated to ensure national greenhouse gas inventory is: transparent: meaning that the assumptions and methodologies used for an inventory should be clearly explained to facilitate replication and assessment of the inventory by users of the reported information; consistent: means that an inventory should be internally consistent in all its elements with inventories of other years. An inventory is consistent if the same methodologies are used for the base and all subsequent years and if consistent data sets are used to estimate emissions or removals from sources or sinks; comparable: means that estimates of emissions and removals reported by Malta in inventories should be comparable with estimates reported by other Annex I Parties; complete: means that an inventory covers all sources and sinks, as well as all gases, included in the IPCC Guidelines as well as other existing relevant source and sink categories which are specific to Malta and, therefore, may not be included in the IPCC Guidelines. Completeness also means full geographic coverage of sources and sinks of an Annex I Party; accurate: means that estimates should be accurate in the sense that they are systematically neither over nor under true emissions or removals, as far as can be judged, and that uncertainties are reduced as far as practicable.

The national greenhouse gas inventory system shall be operated to ensure quality of the inventory through planning, preparation and management of activities. Inventory activities include collecting activity data, selecting and emission factors appropriately, estimating anthropogenic greenhouse emissions by sources and removals by sinks, implementing uncertainty assessment and quality assurance/quality control activities, and carrying out procedures for the verification of the inventory data at the national level.

The national greenhouse gas inventory system shall be operated to enable compliance with commitments relating to the estimation of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks. The national greenhouse gas inventory system shall be operated to enable consistently estimate anthropogenic emissions by all sources and removals sinks of all greenhouse gases, as covered by the relevant IPCC guidelines for greenhouse gas inventories and IPCC good practice guidance, in accordance relevant decisions of the COP and, or, the COP/MOP. The national greenhouse gas inventory system shall ensure that sufficient is available for timely performance of the functions relevant to inventory preparation and management. The national greenhouse gas inventory systems shall ensure the competency involved in the inventory development process. BY SOURCES AND REMOVALS BY SINKS [

SCHEDULE 2 Specific functions of the inventory agency relating to inventory preparation and management.

Inventory preparation.