S.L. 643.4 ст. 2Interpretation. Cap. 543.

In these regulations and unless the context otherwise requires: "Act" means the Climate Action Act;

"Commission" means the European Commission; "COP" means the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC; "COP/MOP" means the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol; "Decision 19/CMP.1" means Decision 19/CMP.1, Guidelines for national systems under Article 5, paragraph 1, of the Kyoto Protocol; "emissions" means the release of greenhouse gases and, or, their precursors into the atmosphere over a specified area and period of time;

"good practice" means a set of procedures intended to ensure that greenhouse gas inventories are accurate in the sense that they are systematically neither over- nor underestimated as far as can be judged, and that uncertainties are reduced as far as possible, and may cover choice of estimation methods appropriate to national circumstances, quality assurance and quality control at the national level, quantification of uncertainties, and data archiving and reporting;

"greenhouse gas" means any gaseous constituent of the atmosphere, both natural and anthropogenic, that absorbs and re-emits infrared radiation; "greenhouse gas inventory" means an accounting of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol emitted to, or removed from, the atmosphere over a period of time; BY SOURCES AND REMOVALS BY SINKS

"IPCC" means the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; "inventory agency" means such body or person as designated by the Single National Entity in terms of regulation 5; "key source category" means a source category that is prioritized within the national inventory because its estimate has significant influence on the country’s total inventory of greenhouse gases in terms of absolute level of emissions, the trend of emissions, or both; "Kyoto Protocol" means the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for climate change policy; "national greenhouse gas inventory system" means a system of institutional, legal and procedural arrangements that is established and maintained to ensure the transparency, consistency, comparability, completeness and accuracy of national greenhouse gas inventories and for reporting and archiving inventory information as defined in Decision 19/CMP.1;

"person" means any natural or legal person; "quality assurance" or "QA" means a planned system of review procedures conducted by personnel not directly involved in the inventory compilation development process, to verify that data quality objectives are met, ensure that the inventory represents the best possible estimate of emissions and sinks given the current state of scientific knowledge and data available, and support the effectiveness of the QC programme; "quality control" or "QC" means a system of routine technical activities to measure and control the quality of the inventory as it is being developed, and designed to provide routine and consistent checks to ensure data integrity, correctness and completeness, identify and address errors and omissions, and document and archive inventory material and record all quality control activities;

"recalculation" means a procedure for re-estimating anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources ad removals by sinks of previously submitted inventories as a consequence of changes in methodologies, changes in the manner in which emission factors and activity data are obtained and used, or the inclusion of new source and sink categories; "Regulation (EU) No 525/2013" means Regulation (EU) No 525/ 2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on a mechanism for monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and for reporting other information at national and Union level relevant to climate change and repealing Decision No 280/ 2004/EC; "single national entity" means the Minister responsible for Climate Change, and such other body or person as the Minister may prescribe and designate as the single national entity;

"sink" means any process, activity or mechanism which removes BY SOURCES AND REMOVALS BY SINKS [

a greenhouse gas, an aerosol or a precursor of a greenhouse gas from the atmosphere; "source" means any process or activity which releases a greenhouse gas, an aerosol or a precursor of a greenhouse gas into the atmosphere;

"UNFCCC" means the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.