Role of the coordinating/managing entity

The rules for creating a Programme of Activities (PoA) introduce a new concept into the CDM system - the coordinating or managing entity. This entity is responsible for proposing and overseeing the PoA:

A PoA shall be proposed by the coordinating or managing entity which shall be a project participant authorized by all participating host country DNAs involved and identified in the modalities of communication as the entity which communicates with the Board, including on matters relating to the distribution of CERs (EB 32, Annex 38, paragraph 4).

There do not appear to be any restrictions on who can be a coordinating/managing entity beyond the requirement that they must be a project participant. According to EB 32, Annex 38, paragraph 1, the coordinating/managing entity "can be a public or private entity".

The coordinating or managing entity must check that none of the CDM Programme Activities (CPAs) have been registered as project activities already:

The coordinating entity of the PoA shall identify measures to ensure that all CPAs under its PoA are neither registered as an individual CDM project activity nor included in another registered PoA and that the CPA is subscribed to the PoA. These measures are to be validated and verified by DOE (EB 32, Annex 38, paragraph 6).