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1. This document contains the amendments adopted by the Executive Board of the clean development mechanism (CDM) (hereafter referred to as the Board) at its eightieth meeting, to the CDM project cycle procedure (PCP) (v.07) (CDM-EB65-A32-PROC). This document will be consolidated in a revised version of the PCP.
2. The entry into force of this document is with immediate effect.
1. The current paragraph 19 shall read as follows:
19. When submitting the PDD or PoA-DD, the DOE shall, through a dedicated interface on the UNFCCC CDM website, also submit the following information to be made publicly available:
(a) The name of the proposed CDM project activity or PoA;
(b) The host Party(ies) of the proposed CDM project activity or PoA;
(c) The names of the project participants listed in the PDD or PoA-DD with which the DOE has a contractual relationship for validation of the proposed CDM project activity or PoA, as well as the name of the coordinating/managing entity in the case of PoA;
(d) The estimated annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions or removal enhancements indicated in the PDD or, in the case of a PoA, the estimated total annual GHG emission reductions or removal enhancements of all component project activities (CPAs) expected to be included in the PoA;
(e) The approved baseline and monitoring methodology(ies) and, where applicable, the approved standardized baseline(s) that is(are) applied to the proposed CDM project activity or PoA;
(f) Reference to any previous publication of the PDD or PoA-DD for public comments on the UNFCCC CDM website;
(g) The proposed start date and length of the first crediting period;
(h) In the case of a PoA, in addition to (a) - (g) above;
(i) The generic CPA-DDs, which specify the generic information relevant to all CPAs that may be included in the PoA. Where more than one technology/measure or more than one methodology is applied, a generic CPA-DD shall be completed for each technology/measure, each methodology and each combination thereof, unless the technologies/measures in the applied methodologies are included in the positive lists for additionality demonstration under the “Guidelines on demonstration of additionality of small-scale project activities” or “Guidelines on demonstration of additionality of microscale project activities”. In the latter case, the generic CPA-DD may cover more than one technology/measure, and the specific CPA-DD(s), to be submitted as per the subparagraph below, may correspond to any one of the technologies/measures or their combinations;
(ii) In case where all specific case CPA-DDs to cover all generic CPA-DDs cannot be provided at the time of publication of the PoA-DD for global stakeholder consultation, at least one specific case CPA-DD corresponding to any of the generic CPA-DDs shall be provided at the time of publication of the PoA-DD for global stakeholder consultation. In this case, for each of the remaining generic CPA-DDs, one specific case CPA-DD shall be provided at the time of request for registration of the PoA or after the registration of the PoA. In the latter case, the specific case CPA-DD shall be provided for approval by the Board in accordance with the post-registration change process as defined in section 6.2 below;
(iii) If the PoA is hosted in more than one host Party, one specific-case CPA-DD for each host Party shall be provided at the time of publication of the PoA-DD for global stakeholder consultation. In this case, if the PoA-DD defines more than one generic CPA-DD, the specific-case CPA-DD for a host Party may correspond to any generic CPA-DD. However, the requirements in subparagraph (ii) above shall still apply to the PoA as a whole.
2. The following paragraphs shall read as follows:
118. To include a CPA in a registered CDM PoA, the coordinating/managing entity shall forward the completed specific case CPA-DD to any DOE, after having ensured that the CPA and the specific case CPA-DD meet the eligibility criteria for inclusion in the PoA defined in the latest version of the registered PoA-DD and its generic CPA-DD. The coordinating/managing entity may forward more than one specific case CPA-DD at one time. Only upon the approval of the first specific case CPA-DD corresponding to a generic CPA-DD by the Board, CPAs corresponding to that generic CPA-DD may be included in the registered CDM PoA.
123. Once the revised PoA-DD and generic CPA-DD with the revised eligibility criteria have been approved by the Board, the inclusion of all new CPAs shall be based on the new version of the PoA-DD and generic CPA-DD.
124. The CPAs that were included before the revision of the eligibility criteria shall apply the latest version of the generic CPA-DD at the time of the renewal of the crediting period.
3. The current paragraphs below shall read as follows:
136. A request for approval of changes may be submitted in respect of the following changes that have occurred or are expected to occur to a registered CDM project activity or PoA:
(a) Temporary deviation from the monitoring plan as described in the registered PDD, the monitoring methodology or the standardized baseline;
(b) Permanent changes:
(i) Corrections;
(ii) Changes to the start date of the crediting period of the project activity or CPA;
(iii) Permanent changes to the monitoring plan as described in the registered PDD, the monitoring methodology or the standardized baseline, including changes to apply the provisions of the most recent version of the “Standard for sampling and surveys for CDM project activities and programme of activities”;
(iv) Changes to the project or programme design in the registered CDM project activity or PoA;
(v) Changes to the project design in the registered generic CPA or specific CPA.
137. For CDM PoAs, with regard to the changes referred to in paragraph 136(b)(iv) above, only the following changes shall be allowed:
(a) Changes to programme boundary to expand geographical coverage or to include additional host Parties;
(b) The following revisions to the eligibility criteria :
(i) If the version of methodologies applied by the PoA is revised or replaced subsequent to being placed on hold;
(ii) If the revision of the eligibility criteria of a registered PoA is initiated by the Board at any time during the lifetime of the PoA if an issue related to environmental integrity is identified;
(iii) If the use of positive lists is introduced based on the “Guidelines on the demonstration of additionality of small-scale project activities” or the provisions of “Guidelines on demonstrating additionality of microscale project activities”;
(c) If a PoA includes more than one generic CPA-DD, addition of specific case CPA-DDs corresponding to generic CPA-DDs for which a specific case CPA-DD has not been submitted at the time of request for registration of the PoA;
(d) Removal of methodologies and/or standardized baselines from the registered PoA;
(e) Addition or change of technologies/measures with or without addition or change of applied methodologies4 in the registered PoA-DD as follows:
(i) Changes that allow a shift to more efficient less GHG-intensive or at least equivalent technologies/measures;5
(ii) Changes that introduce complementary measures/technologies involving mass and/or energy transfer to/from the originally registered technology/measure (e.g. addition or change of Type I methodologies in a registered PoA primarily applying Type III methodologies);6
137bis. In the cases described in paragraph 137 (e) above, the scope of changes shall not cover adding technologies/measures and methodologies that are not related to the technologies and methodologies included in the originally registered PoA.7
4 If the change leads to the application of a new version or a new methodology, in that case the latest version should be applied in its entirety.
5 Examples of this are shifting to LED lighting from CFL lighting, introducing LED lamps with the Solar Home System (SHS) instead of CFL lamps with the same SHS, shifting from AMS-II.G to AMS-I.E to distribute renewable biomass burning cookstoves instead of efficient cookstoves using non-renewable biomass, introducing institutional cookstoves for a registered household cookstoves PoA, introducing charcoal-burning stoves (fully accounting for production emissions of charcoal) in a registered PoA that distributes household wood-burning stoves.
6 An example of this is changing the utilization of recovered methane (e.g. from flaring to heat generation, from heat generation to electricity generation). This may involve the addition/change of Type I methodologies to registered PoAs applying Type III waste/wastewater methodologies.
7 An example of this is a PoA registered for biogas digesters providing biogas for cooking in households intending to implement mass rapid transport technologies; this will not be eligible.
138. For the generic and specific CPAs of the registered CDM PoA, with regard to the changes referred to in paragraph 136(b)(v) above, the following conditions have to be met to modify4 or add technologies/measures:
(a) The applicability conditions of the applied baseline and monitoring methodologies and tools and, where applicable, the applied standardized baselines cover the modified or added technologies/measures (i.e. the modified or added technologies/measure are applicable under the approved baseline and monitoring methodologies and, where applicable, the approved standardized baselines);
(b) The modified or added technologies/measures were either: (i) already included in the originally registered PoA-DD and the eligibility criteria for these technologies/measures had been specified in the originally registered PoA-DD5 or (ii) subsequently included in the revised PoA-DD following the submission by the CME and approval by the Board of a request for post-registration changes in accordance with paragraph 137 above.
4 Modifications to technologies/measures may include changes to the effective output capacity.
5 An example is the case of a CPA that included portable LED lamps that are charged by mechanical energy whereas charging from other renewable energy sources such as solar PV electricity is also required during project implementation; PV electricity to charge the lamps would be eligible if the registered PoA-DD had included it.
139. In the cases described in paragraph 137 above, the coordinating/managing entity shall revise the eligibility criteria for inclusion of CPAs in the PoA to reflect the change, and include them in new versions of PoA-DD and generic CPA-DD, to be validated by the DOE and approved by the Board in accordance with paragraph 140 below.
140. In the following circumstances, the DOE shall submit a request for approval by the Board prior to the submission of the request for issuance in accordance with paragraph 145 below:
(a) The DOE, when performing a verification for a registered CDM project activity or PoA, determines that one or more of the changes referred to in paragraph 136 above have occurred or are expected to occur to the project activity or PoA after its registration, and the changes require “prior approval” by the Board in accordance with the “CDM project standard”;
(b) The project participants or the coordinating/managing entity have requested a DOE at any time prior to the commencement of a verification, to conduct a validation of one or more of the changes referred to in paragraph 136 above that have occurred or are expected to occur to the project activity or PoA after its registration.
141. In the cases referred to in paragraph 140 above, where more than one of the changes referred to in paragraph 136 above have occurred or are expected to occur to the project activity or PoA after its registration, the DOE shall, wherever possible, combine such changes into one request for approval.
142. In all other cases, the DOE that performs a verification of a registered CDM project activity or PoA shall submit the changes for acceptance by the Board as part of the request for issuance in accordance with section 7.3 below.
143. In both cases referred to in paragraphs 140 and 142 above, the DOE shall be accredited for the validation function in the sectoral scope(s) of the project activity or PoA in question.
144. For the change referred to in paragraph 136 (b) (ii), the request for approval of change may be made only once for each registered CDM project activity or CPA.
145. To obtain approval from the Board for the changes, the DOE shall submit a request for approval of changes to the secretariat through a dedicated interface on the UNFCCC CDM website.
146. The request for approval of changes shall contain:
(a) A duly completed “Post-registration changes request form” (F-CDM-PRC);
(b) An assessment opinion on the changes by the DOE prepared in accordance with the “CDM validation and verification standard”;
(c) A revised PDD, or revised PoA-DD, and revised generic CPA-DD and specific CPA-DD (in both clean and track-change versions), as applicable;
(d) A specific CPA-DD for each of the additionally included host Parties in the CDM PoA, as applicable;
(e) Letters of approval by the DNAs of the additionally included host Parties in the CDM PoA, as applicable;
(f) Supplemental documentation, as appropriate.
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EB 80, Annex 6 Initial adoption. |
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