CDM: CDM Registry

Electronic interface for requesting changes to the Modalities of Communication, addition/withdrawal of project participants or updating contact details

04 September 2009

Following the guidance provided in the "Procedures for Modalities of Communication between Project Participants and the Executive Board" adopted at EB45, the secretariat is pleased to announced that a pilot interface has been deployed as a first step towards a full online and paperless process.

Authorised signatories of project participants and focal point entities that wish to request changes to existing Modalities of Communication, addition/withdrawal of project participants or updating contact details should use the electronic F-CDM-MOC form available on the link provided in the registration and issuance emails.

It is no longer necessary to submit the hard copy of the MOC form or any of its annexes, provided the scanned documents have been duly signed and uploaded through this interface. Please note, however, that these documents should be available upon request should the secretariat deem it necessary to verify the originals. Additional documents that may be required, such as Letters of Approval, etc., should not be attached to the F-CDM-MOC form or its annexes and should be sent separately via email instead.

For security reasons, all communication must be channelled via the authorised signatory/ies of the focal point entity and each request made through the electronic interface should be made using the name and email address that has been officially registered in the modalities of communication.

Institutional background

Accounts

Transaction types allowed in the CDM registry

How to... / Guidance
- Change the statement on the modalities of communication (MOC)	- Change the contact details of a project participant
- Add a project participant	- Communicate the change in the name or legal status of a project participant
- Communicate the voluntary withdrawal of a project participant	- Procedures related to holding accounts in the CDM Registry
	- Procedures related to forwarding of CERs

Share of proceeds (SOP) from the clean development mechanism project activities for the Adaptation Fund

Previous announcements : CDM registry starts live operations with EU registries	24 Oct 2008
The CDM registry is pleased to announce that, as a result of the successful connection of EU registries and CITL to the ITL, our live operations with EU registries have officially started on Wednesday 22 October. As from that date the CDM registry has been able to forward CERs held in temporary holding accounts to their associated EU registries for all cases where the national registry ID was made available by account representatives and where the receiving national registry confirmed their readiness to receive them. Entities responsible for instructing on forwarding of CERs from the Pending account of the CDM registry to acquiring holding accounts of project participants authorised by an EU country, as stated in the modalities of communication, are encouraged to check whether the corresponding EU national registry is available to receive CERs from the CDM registry and to ensure that the receiving account corresponds to an account within that national registry. Account representatives of temporary holding accounts that are still expecting to receive CERs in the corresponding national registry are requested to ensure that the national registry account ID has been instructed through the CDM registry online interface (user name and password needed).
Successful connection of the CITL and EU national registries to the ITL	16 Oct 2008
The UN Climate Change secretariat announced on Tuesday 14 October 2008 that it is on schedule to complete the live connection of the UNFCCC International Transaction Log (ITL) with the European Union (EU) Community Independent Transaction Log (CITL) and 26 European Union greenhouse gas emissions trading system (EU ETS) registries. As a result of this, the CDM registry and other Non-EU registries have been switched back to "Operating" mode as from today Thursday 16 October. The CDM registry is therefore now fully operational and able to resume forwarding of CERs as usual. Please note, however, that the forwarding of CERs from Temporary Holding Accounts (THAs) to the associated EU registries will not take place until all the preparatory work has been completed in coordination with the receiving registries. The exact date when all these CERs will be sent to EU registries will be advised on this page in the next few days.
Connection of the CITL and EU registries to the ITL	01 Oct 2008
The European Commission (EC), Member States and the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are currently working on the last preparatory phases of setting up a live connection between the CITL, the UNFCCC International Transaction Log (ITL) and Member State registries. The final connection process between the ITL and CITL will start on 6 October at 8:00 am CEST and is expected to take at least 10 calendar days (see http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/registry_systems/items/2723.php). Please note that, as a result of this process, the CDM registry will not be available for forwarding transactions during that time starting on October 7 2008. Although issuance of CERs will still be conducted as usual, ensuing forwarding requests will not be processed until the connection process is finalised. Once this connection process has been successfully completed, the CDM registry intends to forward all CER units currently held in temporary holding accounts to the national registries they are associated with. All CERs contained in a temporary holding account will be forwarded to the receiving account in the national registry in a single transaction. Specific instructions in this regard are being provided to account representatives via email. For further information about the announcement mentioned above, please refer to the following links: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/emission/citl_en.htm http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/registry_systems/items/2723.php