Tutorial for Covenant of Mayors Signatories: How to submit your Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP)

1. How to submit your
Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP)
Users’ Guide

2. 1/ Log in to ‘My Covenant’ using your personal identifiers
Click “My Covenant” on the right-hand menu
Enter your e-mail
address and your
password.
If you have forgotten your password, you
can request a new one under the
“Retrieve your password” section.

3. 2/ Fill in the ‘SEAP template’ in English
Click “My
Action Plan”
Note: The SEAP template comprises three sections:
‘My Overall Strategy’, ‘My Emission Inventories’ &
‘My Sustainable Energy Action Plan’.

4. 2/ Fill in the ‘SEAP template’ in English
Click “Sustainable Energy
Action Plan Template”
> “My Overall strategy”...
... and complete
the fields
Download here the instructions
(available in all EU languages in
the online library)
Note: All the green cells are mandatory!

5. 2/ Fill in the ‘SEAP template’ in English
Click “Sustainable Energy
Action Plan Template”
> “My Emission Inventories”...
... and click “Add a new
emission inventory”
Push the “edit” button

6. 2/ Fill in the ‘SEAP template’ in English
Complete
the fields
Note: See the virtual demonstration
“how to report your energy / CO2 data
in the SEAP template?”
in Module 3 of the e-learning!

7. 2/ Fill in the ‘SEAP template’ in English
Click “Sustainable Energy
Action Plan Template”
> “My Sustainable Energy
Action Plan”...
...and complete
the fields

8. 2/ Fill in the ‘SEAP template’ in English
Press the “B” icon to add
more information about
your key actions (so-called
“Benchmarks of Excellence”)
Fill in the fields

9. 3/ Submit your SEAP document
Click “Sustainable Energy
Action Plan Document”
and click “add my Sustainable
Energy Action Plan”
(duly approved by the
municipal council)
Complete the “title”, the
“language”, upload the file (in a.pdf
format) and click “Save”.
Note: You can upload here any other relevant documents (in.pdf
format), e.g. your sustainable energy strategy, the detailed results of your
emission inventories, your promotional documents…

10. 4/ Validate your online SEAP submission
Click “Submit my Sustainable
Energy Action Plan”
Press the “submit” button
Note: Both the SEAP template & SEAP document will be forwarded to the European
Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) for their analysis. More information on the
SEAP assessment procedure in the Module 6 of the e-learning.
Once accepted by the JRC, highlights of the provided information will be shown under
your public signatory profile.