11.7.2014 Official Journal of the European Union L 203/23 COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 749/2014 of 30 June 2014 on structure, format, submission processes and review of information reported by Member States pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on a mechanism for monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and for reporting other information at national and Union level relevant to climate change and repealing Decision No 280/2004/EC ('), and in particular Articles 7(7), 7(8), 8(2), 12(3), 17(4) and 19(5) thereof, Whereas: (1) The information reported to the Commission pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 is necessary to enable the assessment of the actual progress towards meeting the Union’s and the Member States’ commitments relating to the limitation or reduction of all greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approved by Council Decision 94/69/EC (), its Kyoto Protocol approved by Council Decision 2002/358/EC (*) and the set of Union legal acts, adopted in 2009, collectively referred to as the ‘Climate and Energy Package’. It also enables the preparation of annual reports by the Union in accordance with the obligations under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol. (2)  Decision 19/CMP.1 of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol lays down the guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventory systems the Parties to the Conven- tion should apply. In Decision 24/CP.19 of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC on the revision of the UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual inventories for Parties included in Annex I to the UNFCCC, the Confer- ence of the Parties to the UNFCCC agreed on the use by the Parties to the UNFCCC of the 2006 Intergovern- mental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National Greenhouse gas inventories, the use of new IPCC global warming potential values and revised common reporting format tables as included in an Annex to that Decision. (3)  Following the replacement of Decision No 280/2004/EC (*) by Regulation (EU) No 525/2013, Commission Deci- sion No 2005/166/EC () laying down rules implementing Decision 280/2004/EC needs to be updated in order to take into account the changes in the internationally agreed guidelines and to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of those provisions that are new in the Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 as compared to Decision 280/2004/EC. Such uniform implementing provisions should cover the reporting of greenhouse gas inventories, approximated greenhouse gas inventories, information on systems for policies and measures and projections, the use of auctioning revenue and project credits and for the purposes of Decision No 529/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (°). Given the number of changes that are necessary to Decision No 2005/166/EC it is appropriate to repeal and replace it. () OJL165,18.6.2013,p.13. (*) Council Decision 94/69/EC of 15 December 1993 concerning the conclusion of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (OJ L 33,7.2.1994, p. 11). (®) Council Decision 2002/358/EC of 25 April 2002 concerning the approval, on behalf of the European Community, of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the joint fulfilment of commitments thereunder (OJ L 130, 15.5.2002, p. 1). (*) Decision N0P28)O/ 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 (OJ L 49, 19.2.2004, p. 1). () Commission Decision No 2005/166/EC of 10 February 2005 laying down rules implementing Decision No 280/2004/EC of the Euro- pean Parliament and of the Council concerning a mechanism for monitoring Community greenhouse gas emissions and for imple- menting the Kyoto Protocol (O] L 55, 1.3.2005, p. 57). Decision No 529/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on accounting rules on greenhouse gas emis- sions and removals resulting from activities relating to land use, land-use change and forestry and on information concerning actions relating to those activities (O] L 165, 18.6.2013, p. 80). =