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MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
ORDER ON THE COLLECTION OF DATA RELATED TO LAND USE, LAND-USE CHANGE
AND FORESTRY AND THE SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION
29 July 2010, No. D1-666
Vilnius
With a view to ensuring the effective implementation of the provisions of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change ratified by Resolution No. I-812 of the Parliament of the
Republic of Lithuania of 23 February 1995 "On the ratification of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change" (Official Gazette, 1995, No. 18-413), paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 3
and paragraph 1 of Article 7 of the Kyoto Protocol thereto ratified by the Law of the Republic of
Lithuania on the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (Official Gazette, 2002, No. 126-5728) and Decision No 80/2004/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 2004 special edition, Chapter
15, Volume 8, p. 57):
1. I hereby decree that the State Forest Survey Service shall collect and store forestry data and
use these data for preparing summary information related to the inventories of greenhouse gas emissions
and removals by sinks in the land use, land-use change and forestry sector in accordance with this
Community legislation, the decisions adopted at the conferences of the Parties to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and at the meetings of the Parties to the Kyoto
Protocol and the guidelines prepared by the secretariat and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC):
1.1. Commission Decision No 2005/166/EC of 10 February 2005 laying down rules
implementing Decision No 280/2004/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning a
mechanism for monitoring Community greenhouse gas emissions and for implementing the Kyoto
Protocol (OJ 2005 L 55, p. 57);
1.2. UNFCCC secretariat decision 15/CMP.1. The guidelines for the preparation of the
information required under Article 7 of the Kyoto Protocol (FCCC/KP/CMP/2005/8/Add.2);
1.3. IPCC good practice guidance for land use, land-use change and forestry; IPCC 2003.
1.4. Lithuania’s Initial Report under the Kyoto Protocol, July 2007;
1.5. Annotated outline of the the National Inventory Report including reporting elements under
the Kyoto protocol, UNFCCC secretariat;
1.6. Annual reports prepared by the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change on the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Reports submitted that provide
recommendations and identify errors.
2. I hereby obligate the State Forest Survey Service, by 1 December of each year, to submit to
the Ministry of Environment and/or an institution authorised by the Ministry forestry data and summary
information related to inventories of greenhouse gas emissions and removals by sinks in the land use,
land-use change and forestry sector, which are collected and/or stored by the Service and necessary for
preparing reports submitted to the secretariat of the Parties to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change and to the European Commission.
3. I hereby obligate the Climate Change and Hydrometeorology Division of the Pollution
Prevention Department of the Ministry of Environment to submit to the State Forest Survey Service
legislation of the European Union referred to in point 1 of this Order, the decisions adopted at the
conferences of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and at the
meetings of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol and the guidelines prepared by the secretariat and the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and to submit regularly the most up-to-date information
related to the inventories of greenhouse gas emissions and removals by sinks in the land use, land-use
change and forestry sector.
Minister of Environment
Gediminas Kazlauskas