Article 6 Accounting for afforested land and deforested land

Member States shall account for emissions and removals resulting from afforested land and deforested land calculated as the total emissions and total removals for each of the years in the period from 2021 to 2025.

By way of derogation from Article 5(3), and no later than 2025, where land use has been converted from cropland, grassland, wetland, settlements or other land to forest land, a Member State may, 30 years after the date of that conversion, change the categorisation of such land from land converted to forest land to forest land remaining forest land, where such change is duly justified based on the IPCC Guidelines.

When calculating emissions and removals resulting from afforested land and deforested land, each Member State shall determine the forest area using the parameters specified in Annex II.