A Transition Template is used to close gaps between previous Standard versions and GS4GG without requiring project developers to resubmit their project documentation using new GS4GG templates. The Transition Template is only required when projects transition at the next Performance Certification.
The Transition Template must be submitted alongside any Performance Review in which the validation and verification body (VVB) verification contract was signed after 1st March 2018. Once a Transition is approved, the project becomes a GS4GG project; monitoring periods verified after the date of transition approval must therefore be verified under GS4GG.
Transition may also occur at the next crediting renewal period after 1st March 2018 (again, defined as the date the VVB contract was signed). Projects are required to re-submit their project documentation using new GS4GG templates and are renewed as GS4GG projects. A Transition Template is therefore not required.
If you had less than 24 months remaining in your crediting period on 14th August 2017, please read Section 2.2 of the Transition Requirements.