Reporting data under NEC Directive and LRTAP Convention

This page contains information which support the reporting of emissions data under both NEC Directive (EU 2016/2284) and the LRTAP Convention

Reporting deadlines

Reporting of emissions data under NECD and LRTAP has different deadlines according to different reporting obligations.

Reporting deadlines under NEC Directive

Emission inventory: 15/02/2017, and every year after.  Countries may provide a resubmission for emission inventories by 15th March

Projections: 15/03/2017, and every two years after

Large Point Sources: 01/05/2017, and every four years after

Gridded data: 01/05/2017, and every four years after

Reporting deadlines under LRTAP Convention

Emission inventory: 15/02/2017, and every year after.  Countries may provide a resubmission for emission inventories by 15th March

Projections: 15/03/2015, and every four years after

Large Point Sources: 01/05/2017, and every four years after

Gridded data: 01/05/2017, and every four years after

Note on improving reporting of LPS and Gridded data

In 2020 the EC run a review on emissions data reported under the NEC Directive on Large Point Sources and Gridded data. A note including suggestion and recommendation in order to improve the reporting of these data has been made available to the countries in December 2020. A copy of the note is available here

Reporting guidelines

Reporting of emission data under both NEC Directive and LRTAP Convention is performed against the Guidelines for reporting emissions and projections data under the Convention available on the CEIP (Centre on Emission Inventories and Projections) website. On CEIP website the most recent and updated version of the reporting templates is also available.

Additional instruction on how to report emissions data into CDR are available here.

Harvesting of data

Once reporters release their envelopes on CDR, the EEA still has to manually "technically accept" the submission. This usually takes place during normal office hours and EEA aims to accomplish this no later than 48 hours after the release of the envelope. Once "technically accepted", the file(s) in the envelope is then harvested into the relevant SQL database (NECD / LRTRAP) at EEA. Harvesting should take place within a few hours after the manual acceptance. The harvesting process also triggers additional QA/QC routines which runs on the reported data.

Reporters can check the status of the reported envelopes through this online data viewer

QA/QC on reported emissions data

Once the envelope is technically accepted by the EEA, reporters can track the QA/QC output of their submissions through different online viewers:

Emission inventories: NECD, LRTAP

Projections: NECD,  LRTAP

Large Point Sources and Gridded data: NECD,  LRTAP

Reporting of Policies and Measures under NEC Directive

Under the NEC Directive Member States are required to report a National Air Pollution Control Programme (NAPCP) by 1 April 2019 and to update it at the latest every four years. Together with it, Member State shall report a set of Policies and Measures (PaMs). Member States are also required to update (within 18 months) policies and measures if their emission inventories show non-compliance with emission reduction commitments or if emission projections show a risk of non-compliance (Article 6(4) of the NEC Directive).

PaMs reporting under NECD has to be done through a webform available here.

Reporters are encouraged to consult the reporting guidelines for this webform, available here.

How to use the PaM webform (workshop demonstration) here.

Mapping of nomenclatures relevant to emission reporting