EU importers of gas, oil and coal must report on their producers' methane every year. Annex9 collects the supplier data, checks it against the regulation, records what you did about the gaps, and produces a filing pack for your team and your counsel to review and submit. You stay responsible for the filing — Annex9 makes it fast and defensible. Start free with the producer registry below.
The grace period softens fines for early non-compliance. It does not defer the duty to file, and it does not shield inaccurate or bad-faith reporting. What an inspection tests is the trail: who you asked, what they sent, and what you did about the gaps.
Financial penalties for certain early-period shortfalls are eased during the phase-in. This is temporary and conditional.
The annual Annex IX report is due each 5 May regardless. Missing or false reporting is not covered by the grace period.
Where a producer sends no data, the standard is evidence of genuine effort to obtain it — dated, attributable, and retained.
Annex9 standardises the format of your Annex IX report and checks it against a versioned ruleset carrying the article references. It does not decide whether your filing is sufficient, and it does not submit on your behalf — that judgment, and every value, stays with you.
Send suppliers a standard data pack. Responses arrive by secure link, email or spreadsheet, and land in one ledger with originals preserved.
The ruleset flags missing or malformed fields against the exact article reference. It reports structural completeness — not whether an authority will accept the filing.
Every request, reminder and response is timestamped and hash-chained. Uploaded evidence is sealed into the record — the proof of reasonable effort.
You acknowledge a pre-filing review, then the pack generates in your authority's format with the full audit log attached. You file it.
Every value in the registry is stored exactly as published, linked to the source document, its publication date, and a content hash of the archived file. Names are matched across sources by normalized legal name and known aliases; ambiguous matches are held for review, never merged silently. It is a cross-check, not a filing source: compliance teams use it to sense-check what a supplier tells them against the public record; supply and trading desks use it to compare the methane profile of the producers they buy from. Your filing is always built from the data your suppliers give you — the registry helps you spot when that data doesn't match what's public.
| Source | What it provides | Publisher | Cadence |
|---|---|---|---|
| OGMP 2.0 member list | Membership, segment, country of production | UNEP | Monthly |
| OGMP 2.0 factsheets | Reporting level, Gold Standard status, targets | UNEP | Annual |
| IMEO — MARS | Satellite super-emitter observations | UNEP | Continuous |
| MiQ certified facilities | Facility certifications and grades | MiQ | Periodic |
| Country equivalence | Commission equivalence determinations | European Commission | On decision |
Because the report builder is local-first, your supplier data never leaves your control — so the usual data-processing questionnaire, data-residency review and breach-surface assessment mostly don't apply. That is deliberate: it is the fastest path from evaluation to use inside a large organisation.
Annex9 is a reference and workflow tool that helps an obligated importer meet the EU Methane Regulation's import-reporting requirement. It consolidates public data and standardises the filing format so the importer can prepare, evidence and export an Annex IX report.
It is not a law firm, an auditor, or a competent authority. It states facts with their sources; it does not issue verdicts.