1.8.2007 Official Journal of the European Union L 200/5 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 916/2007 of 31 July 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 2216/2004 for a standardised and secured system of registries pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Decision No 280/2004/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC (1), and in particular Article 19(3) thereof, Having regard to Decision No 280/2004/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 February 2004 concerning a mechanism for monitoring Community greenhouse gas emissions and for implementing the Kyoto Protocol (3), and in particular the first subparagraph, second sentence of Article 6(1) thereof, Whereas: (1) ~ Commission Regulation (EC) No 2216/2004 (}) laid down general provisions, functional and technical speci- fications and operational and maintenance requirements concerning the standardised and secured registries system consisting of registries, in the form of standardised elec- tronic databases containing common data elements, and the Community independent transaction log. (2)  Due to the nature of the registries’ system’s architecture, if registries are communicating with the Community independent transaction log through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) independent transaction log it is only possible to change the routing for all registries at the same time. Any registry that would not be ready for a given deadline, should also have to stop its participation in the Community greenhouse gas emission allowance scheme if other Member States connected to the UNFCCC independent transaction log without it. Therefore, when the UNFCCC independent transaction () OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 32. Directive as amended by Directive 2004/101/EC (O] L 338, 13.11.2004, p. 18). () OJ L 49, 19.2.2004, p. 1. () OJ L 386, 29.12.2004, p. 1. ©) log is operational, it should be ensured that it is linked to the Community independent transaction log and registries either when the Community independent trans- action log and all registries are technically capable of such a link or when the Community considers it appro- priate to link the two transaction logs. It is currently foreseen that when a connection between the UNFCCC independent transaction log and the Community independent transaction log exists, registries would connect to the Community independent trans- action log through the UNFCCC independent transaction log. However, interactions between the Community inde- pendent transaction log and registries would become much simpler and more flexible if registries would connect to the UNFCCC independent transaction log through the Community independent transaction log. The Central Administrator should therefore be empowered to determine the order of connections. Both the Member States and the Community should ensure that their registries are connected to the UNFCCC independent transaction log at the earliest possible date and should deliver to the administrator of the UNFCCC independent transaction log the documen- tation required for the initialisation of their registry with that log in accordance with the functional and technical specifications for data exchange standards for registry systems under the Kyoto Protocol, elaborated pursuant to Decision 24/CP.8 of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC. The Community should make all necessary efforts to ensure that every Member State registry, the Community independent transaction log and the UNFCCC independent transaction log are connected to each other before 1 December 2007. Registries should be enabled to ensure that entering verified emissions in the registries is possible only if the verified emissions report has been delivered to the competent authority, and after the deadline for surren- dering allowances, verified emissions data should be corrected only if the decision of the competent authority also addresses the compliance status of the installation whose verified emissions are corrected.