11.10.2008 Official Journal of the European Union L 271)3 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 994/2008 of 8 October 2008 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 system for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC ('), 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 (), and in particular the first subparagraph, second sentence, Article 6(1) thereof, Whereas: (1) An integrated Community system of registries, consisting of the registries of the Community and its Member States established pursuant to Article 6 of Decision No 280/2004[EC that incorporate the registries established pursuant to Article 19 of Directive 2003/87/EC and the Community independent transaction log (hereinafter CITL) established pursuant to Article 20 of that Directive, is necessary to ensure that the issue, transfer and cancel- lation of allowances does not involve irregularities and that transactions are compatible with the obligations resulting from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereinafter UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. In accordance with Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on public access to environmental information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EEC (}) and Decision 13/CMP.1 of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (here- inafter Decision 13/CMP.1), specific reports should be made public on a regular basis to ensure that the public has access to information held within the inte- grated system of registries, subject to certain confidentiality requirements. 275, 25.10.2003, p. 32. oJL O] L 49, 19.2.2004, p. 1. oL 41, 14.2.2003, p. 26. G) B 0 © (0) (0) (0) ] ] J Community legislation concerning the protection of indi- viduals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, in particular Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (%), Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the elec- tronic communications sector (°) and Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data (°), should be respected where these are applicable to information held and processed pursuant to this Regulation. Each registry should contain at least one Party holding account, one retirement account, and the cancellation and replacement accounts required pursuant to Decision 13/CMP.1, and each registry established pursuant to Article 19 of Directive 2003/87/EC should contain national accounts and holding accounts for operators and for other persons required to implement the requirements of that Directive. Each such account should be created in accordance with standardised procedures to ensure the integrity of the registries system and public access to information held in this system. Article 6 of Decision No 280/2004/EC requires the Community and its Member States to apply the func- tional and technical specifications for data exchange standards for registry systems under the Kyoto Protocol, adopted by Decision 12/CMP.1 of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (here- inafter Decision 12/CMP.1), for the establishment and operation of registries and the CITL. The application and elaboration of these specifications in relation to the integrated Community registries system allows the incorporation of the registries established pursuant to Article 19 of Directive 2003/87[EC into the registries established pursuant to Article 6 of Decision No 280/2004/EC. L 281, 23.11.1995, p. 31. L 201, 31.7.2002, p. 37. L 8, 12.1.2001, p. 1.