An applicant entity may submit a new methodology to the EB only if the following conditions are met:

1. A CDM assessment team (CDM-AT) has been assigned to the AE (i.e. the CDM-AP has undertaken a preliminary consideration of the AE and the AE has agreed to the composition of the CDM-AT), and

2. The AE maintains documentary evidence (e.g. a procedural report) for each new methodology submitted to the EB.

List of applicant entities that meet requirement 1 above(*) (For information on contact and sectoral scope(s) applied for by an AE, click on the name of the entity)
Ernst & Young Associés (France)
China Environmental United Certification Center Co., Ltd.
KPMG AZSA Sustainability Co., Ltd.
ERM Certification and Verification Services Limited
Conestoga Rovers & Associates Limited
Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Ltd.
URS Verification Private Limited
China Classification Society Certification Company
TÜV SÜD Industrie Service GmbH
Korea Environment Corporation
DNV Climate Change Services AS
TÜV NORD CERT GmbH
re-consult Ltd.
JACO CDM., LTD
Spanish Association for Standardisation and Certification
Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
KBS Certification Services Pvt. Ltd
Carbon Check (Pty) Ltd
Korean Foundation for Quality
Swiss Association for Quality and Management Systems
CEPREI certification body
Japan Consulting Institute
Japan Management Association
Perry Johnson Registrars Carbon Emissions Services
SGS United Kingdom Limited
Deloitte Tohmatsu Evaluation and Certification Organization
Nippon Kaiji Kentei Quality Assurance Limited
Bureau Veritas Certification Holding SAS
Korea Energy Management Corporation
Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency
TÜV Rheinland (China) Ltd.
China Quality Certification Center
Ernst & Young Shin Nihon
LGAI Technological Center, S.A.
Colombian Institute for Technical Standards and Certification
Korean Standards Association
RINA Services S.p.A.
SIRIM QAS INTERNATIONAL SDN.BHD
Germanischer Lloyd Certification GmbH
Japan Quality Assurance Organisation

(*) Whenever there is an update to this list, a message will be sent to the UNFCCC CDM news facility.

Background: The Executive Board (EB), at its seventh meeting, provided clarifications on the role of Designated Operational Entities (DOE) with regard to new methodologies proposed by project participants and on the types of activities to be witnessed in the context of the accreditation of applicant entities (AE).
The "tasks to be undertaken by a DOE if it has determined, in accordance with paragraph 38 of the CDM M&P, that the project activity intends to use a new baseline or monitoring methodology: the DOE shall check whether documents are complete and forward, without further analysis, the new methodology to the Board for its review and approval." The EB therefore agreed that witnessing an applicant entity performing this task shall not be the basis for the recommendation to accredit such an entity (see graph in Annex 1 to the report of EB07).

This clarification by the EB made it possible that a new methodology can immediately be submitted to the EB (and its METH panel), through an AE, for its consideration and possible approval.

However, based on a recommendation by the CDM accreditation panel (CDM-AP), at its recent meeting on 6-7 February 2003, the EB agreed to further clarify that:

An applicant entity may submit a new methodology to the EB only if the following conditions are met:

1. A CDM assessment team (CDM-AT) has been assigned to the AE (i.e. the CDM-AP has undertaken a preliminary consideration of the AE and the AE has agreed to the composition of the CDM-AT), and
2. The AE maintains documentary evidence (e.g. a procedural report) for each new methodology submitted to the EB.

In accordance with the CDM M&P, the starting date of the period of consideration by EB is the date of receipt by the EB of the new methodology.