Monitoring CO2 and other greenhouse gases A Council Decision on a monitoring mechanism for Community CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions (Decision 93/389/EEC of 24.6.1993), now published in the Official Journal, establishes that the Member States shall devise, publish and implement national programmes for limiting ... A Council Decision on a monitoring mechanism for Community CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions (Decision 93/389/EEC of 24.6.1993) now published in the Official Journal, establishes that the Member States shall devise, publish and implement national programmes for limiting their anthropogenic emissions of CO2 in order to contribute to the stabilization of CO2 emissions by the year 2000 at 1990 levels in the Community as a whole and to fulfil the commitment relating to the limitation of CO2 emissions in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, by the Community as a whole, through action by the Community and its Member States. The above is to be undertaken on the understanding that other leading countries undertake commitments along similar lines and on the understanding that Member States which start from relatively low levels of energy consumption and therefore low emissions are entitled to have CO2 targets and/or strategies corresponding to their economic and social development, while improving the energy efficiency of their economic activities. Each Member State shall include in its national programme its 1990 base year anthropogenic emissions of CO2, inventories of its anthropogenic CO2 emissions by sources and removal by sinks, details of national policies and measures contributing to the limitation of emissions, trajectories for its national CO2 emissions between 1994 and 2000, measures being taken or envisaged for the implementation of relevant Community legislation and policies, a description of policies and measures in order to increase the sequestration of CO2 emissions, and an assessment of the economic impact of the above measures. The Decision also sets out rules for inventories and data reporting, procedures and measures for evaluation, a Commission first evaluation of national programmes and of the state of emissions in the Community, and subsequent evaluation of progress. Member States shall also send to the Commission data on emissions of other greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol and a description of measures being taken for their control. National programmes for the limitation of these gases should be established as policies with regard, in particular, to developments decided within the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
