Abstract
The guidelines aim to provide IPA countries with an appropriate tool in the form of a concise but comprehensive overview of each relevant legislative act (decisions, directives and regulations). In this context, lists all sectoral and cross-sectoral legal acts related to climate change; aims to facilitate understanding of each binding instrument via an overview of the main obligations, tools, institutional innovations, objectives, and quantitative and qualitative targets; helps to identify interconnections among different legislative acts in the interests of coherent and efficient implementation; and provides an outline of the evolution of EU climate legislation by identifying the amendments and repeals connected to each of the analysed legislative acts, refers to recent legislative proposals currently under discussion which might enter into force in the near future.