Monitoring report

The project participants must provide a monitoring report to the designated operational entity (DOE) engaged to conduct verification and certification of the emission reductions from the project:

The project participants shall provide to the designated operational entity, contracted by the project participants to perform the verification, a monitoring report in accordance with the registered monitoring plan set out in paragraph 53 above for the purpose of verification and certification (3/CMP.1, Annex, paragraph 60).

The Guidelines for completing the Monitoring Report Form (CDM-MR) (Version 01) (EB 54, Annex 34) confirms this:

If the project participants wish to submit a project activity for verification and issuance, they shall submit a fully completed CDM-MR (EB 54, Annex 34, paragraph 2).

The first monitoring report made publicly available by the DOE on the CDM website is the one prepared by the project participants prior to the verification activity. Any revised monitoring report prepared as a result of corrective action raised by the DOE must be submitted as an additional document together with the request for issuance form (EB 25, paragraph 107).

The Executive Board has clarified that emissions data obtained through monitoring must be contained in the monitoring report that is provided to the DOE, and must then be submitted to the UNFCCC Secretariat in a format which facilitates assessment:

DOEs shall ensure that all of the monitoring parameters required by the registered monitoring plan are reported by the project participants at the intervals required by the registered monitoring plan. Project participants are advised that data should be contained in the monitoring report before a request for issuance is made to a DOE, and submitted to the secretariat in a format which allows for assessment by the RIT member appointed to conduct the appraisal (EB 26, paragraph 109(a)).