5.5.1999 Official Journal of the European Communities L117/35 COUNCIL DECISION of 26 April 1999 amending Decision 93/389/EEC for a monitoring mechanism of Community CO, and other greenhouse gas emissions (1999/296/EC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 130s(1) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ('), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (%), Acting in accordance with the procedure referred to in Atrticle 189¢ of the Treaty (%), ) Whereas all Member States and the Community are Parties to the United Nations Framework Conven- tion on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which, from its entry into force on 21 March 1994, commits all Parties to develop, periodically update, publish and report to the Conference of the Parties national inventories of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, using compar- able methodologies agreed upon by the Conference of the Parties; Whereas that same Convention commits all Parties to formulate, implement, publish and regularly update national, and where appropriate, regional programmes containing measures to mitigate climate change by addressing anthropogenic emis- sions by sources and removals by sinks of all green- house gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol; Whereas the First Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC decided that Annex I Parties to the said Convention should submit to the secretariat national inventory data on emissions by sources and removals by sinks on an annual basis and that the guidelines for national greenhouse gas invent- () OJ C 120, 18.4.1998, p. 22. (3 OJ L 89, 19.3.1997, p. 7. () Opinion of the European Parliament of 18 September 1997 (OJ C 304, 6.10.1997, 16 June 1998 (OJ C 333, 30.10.1998, p. 38) and Decision of p. 109), Council Common Position of European Parliament of 9 February 1999 (not yet published in the Official Journal). ories and technical guidelines for assessing climate change impacts and adaptations adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should be used in preparing their reports pursuant to the Convention; Whereas it is necessary to amend Decision 93/ 389/EEC (*) to allow for the updating of the monitoring process, in particular the post-2000 monitoring of greenhouse gas emission limitations and reductions and its application to all anthropo- genic greenhouse gas emissions not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, in line with the obligations of the UNFCCC and taking into account the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol to that Convention, adopted by the Third Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC on 10 December 1997; Whereas it is vital to be able to assess accurately and regularly the extent of progress being made towards the Community’s commitments under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol to that Conven- tion; Whereas the Community considers the monitoring mechanism to be an essential instrument in the assessment of this progress; Whereas the Kyoto Protocol requires Annex I Parties to have made demonstrable progress in achieving their commitments under the Protocol by 2005; Whereas the provisions of the monitoring mech- anism established under Decision 93/389/EEC need to apply equally to anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol and the monitoring process should continue to be updated to reflect further decisions in the frame- work of the Kyoto Protocol; () OJ L 167, 9.7.1993, p. 31.