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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