1.      National registry shall ensure the accurate accounting of the issuance, holding, transfer, acquisition, cancellation and retirement of AAUs, CERs, ERUs and RMUs and the carry-over of ERUs, CERs and AAUs.

2.      To ensure the data exchange between the Russian registry of carbon units and other national registries. To interact with national registries of other countries only through the ITL Communication Hub.

3.      To ensure public access to the information through the Internet on a constant basis:

·        Account information (holder, contacts);

·        Information on overall amount of units;

·        Current holdings on each account;

·        Information on Joint Implementation (project’s title, disposition, years of ERU's issuance);

·        List of legal entities authorized by the Russian Federation to participate in the Kyoto mechanisms.

Security Measures of the Russian registry of carbon units ensure

Confidentiality: data is encrypted so that the third party that doesn’t concern to the transaction couldn’t read it.

Authentication: communicational systems of the Russian registry are unique identified and surely recognized.

Impossibility of renunciation of the activities: complete and final record of all activities should be foreseen in order that these activities couldn’t be disputed or denied.

Integrity: impossibility for any third party not concerning to the transaction to alter the data that Russian registries exchange.

Possibility of control: providing audit for every message and every message sequence.

Functions of internal computer-aided control: providing data protection from unauthorized operations, data conservation and reconstruction in case of a failure.