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Governance of the Energy Union

Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 on the Govemance of the Energy Union aims to ensure that the EU's Energy Union Strategy is implemented in a coordinated and coherent manner across its 5 dimensions. More broadly, it also aims to ensure that the Energy Union achieves its objectives, in particular the targets of the 2030 policy framework for climate and energy and of the Paris Agreement on climate change. lt repeals Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 on the monitoring and reporting mechanism for greenhouse gas emissions.

The regulation has a number of key features:

• it requires EU countries to produce a national integrated energy and climate plan for the period 2021 to 2030 by 1 January 2019, and then every 10 years for the following 10-year periods;
• it establishes a consultation process between the European Commission and EU countries, and regional cooperation between EU countries, before the plans are finalised, and then every 1 O years for the following 10-year periods. For the period to 2030, the plans need to be updated by 30 June 2024;
• it requires EU countries to prepare and report to the Commission long-term lowemission strategies with a 50-year perspective, in view of contributing to broader sustainable development goals and the long-term goal set by the Paris Agreement;
• it requires EU countries to produce biennia! progress reports on the implementation of the pl ans from 2021 onwards across the 5 dimensions of the Energy Union, to track progress;
• it requires the Commission to monitor and assess EU countries' progress towards the targets, objectives and contributions set in their national plans;
• it sets out the requirements for national and EU inventory systems for greenhouse gas emissions, policies, measures and projections.