S.L. 545.45 Art. 7Union database.

(1) The relevant economic operators shall enter accurate data into the Union database comprised of the following information:

(a) the transactions made;

(b) the sustainability characteristics of the fuels subject to those transactions, including their life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions, starting from their point of production to the moment they are placed on the market in the Union;

(c) whether support has been provided for the production of a specific consignment of fuel, and in this case, the type of support scheme:

Provided that the relative economic operators shall comply with the requirements established in Annex I of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/996 of 14 June 2022 on rules to verify sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria and low indirect land-use change-risk criteria in making such entries.

(2) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1) the interconnected gas system shall be considered to be a single mass balance system.

(3) Data on the injection and withdrawal of renewable gaseous fuels shall be provided in the Union database.

(4) Fuel suppliers shall enter the data necessary to verify compliance with any substitution obligation which they are subject to into the Union database.

(5) The Regulator shall have access to the Union database for the purposes of monitoring and data verification.

(6) The accuracy and completeness of the data entered by economic operators into the Union database shall be verified by the Regulator:

Provided that such verification may be complemented by a system of guarantees of origin.

(7) The verification described in the sub-regulation (6) may be carried out through the use of certification bodies in the framework of voluntary schemes recognised by the Commission pursuant to Article 30(4) and (5) of the Directive or a national scheme as described in regulation 5(12).

(8) For the purposes of sub-regulation (7) voluntary or national schemes may use third-party data systems as intermediaries to collect the data, if such use has been notified to the Commission.