(1)

Article 8(2) of Directive (EU) 2016/2284 requires Member States to prepare and update every two years national emission projections for the pollutants set out in Table C of Annex I to that Directive, in line with the requirements set out in that Directive.

(2)

Article 8(5) of Directive (EU) 2016/2284 provides that national emission projections should be prepared and updated in line with the requirements set out in Annex IV to that Directive and, to be estimated and aggregated to relevant source sectors.

(3)

Emission projections should be reported to the Commission and to the European Environment Agency in line with Article 10(2) of Directive (EU) 2016/2284. This reporting is to be consistent with the rules on reporting provided for in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution of 1979 (2) (the LRTAP Convention).

(4)

The reporting requirements under the LRTAP Convention are established by the Guidelines for Reporting Emissions and Projections Data under the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (Reporting Guidelines). The Convention Executive Body revised those Reporting Guidelines at its 42nd session in December 2022 (3) modifying the requirements for reporting emission projections. Under paragraph 27, paragraph 41(b) and paragraph 46 of the revised Reporting Guidelines, projected emissions should be reported using the template set out in Annex IV to those Reporting Guidelines. That template corresponds to the structure of the template for emission inventories reporting, which means that emission projections should be reported following the individual nomenclature for reporting (NFR) source categories as provided for in the LRTAP Convention.

(5)

Since the 2022 revision of the Reporting Guidelines, the level of aggregation of emission projections required under Directive (EU) 2016/2284 is no longer in line with the reporting requirements set out in the LRTAP Convention. The template set out in Annex IV to the revised Reporting Guidelines requires a greater level of detail, corresponding to the level of reporting for emission inventories required by Annex I to the revised Reporting Guidelines and by Article 8(1) of Directive (EU) 2016/2284. To improve comparability and consistency, it is appropriate to adjust the reporting of the emission projections set out in Directive (EU) 2016/2284 to the reporting of emission inventories required under Directive (EU) 2016/2284.

(6)

Annexes I and IV to Directive (EU) 2016/2284 should therefore be amended accordingly,