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EC GHG inventory system –
EC GHG inventory 1990-2000 and
inventory report 2002
3rd Joint UNECE Task Force & EIONET
Workshop on emission inventories and
projections – 7 May 2002
Bernd Gugele
EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON AIR AND CLIMATE CHANGE
EC GHG Inventory system
 Legal basis
– Council Decision 99/296/EC for a
Monitoring Mechanism of Community
CO2 and other GHG emissions
– Guidelines under Council Decision
99/296/EC: Part I: Guidelines for MS
and EC Annual Inventories
 Institutions involved
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Member States
Commission (DG ENV)
EEA/ETC-ACC
Eurostat
Joint Research Centre
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The process of compiling the EC
inventory
Element
Who
When
1. Submission of annual Member States
inventory
31 December annually
2. Initial check of MS
submissions
European Commission
(incl. Eurostat, JRC),
assisted by EEA
European Commission
(incl. Eurostat, JRC),
assisted by EEA
up to 1 March
Member States
up to 1 April
European Commission
(incl. Eurostat, JRC),
assisted by EEA
15 April
3. Compilation and
circulation of draft EC
inventory
4. Submission of
updated or additional
data by MS
5. Final annual EC
inventory
1 March
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Submissions 2002
 Timeliness
– 7 MS in time: BE, DK, FI, FR, NL, SE,
UK
– 15 MS by 5 April
 Completeness
– 10 MS submitted all tables: AT, DK,
ES, FI, FR, GR, NL, PT, SE, UK
– 2 MS provided all tables for 2000
– 2 MS did not provide data on F-gases
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Submissions 2002
 National Inventory Reports
available
– 7 MS delivered information in 2002:
DE, ES, FI, FR, NL, SE, UK
– For 8 MS information for 2001 is
available
– For 6 MS no information is available
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Other EEA Member Countries
 Timeliness
– 2 countries by 31 Dec: CZ, EE
– 4 countries by 30 April: BG, LV, NO, SK
– 10 countries provided no data
 Completeness
– 5 countries latest data is 2000: CZ, EE, LV,
NO, SK
– 1 country latest data is 1999: BG
– All 6 countries provided full CRF for latest
year
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EC Inventory Report 2002 (1)
 European GHG inventory system
– The MM
– Institutions
– Improvements
 Overall GHG emission trends
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Aggregate results
By gas
By sources
By Member States
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EC Inventory Report 2002 (2)
 Methodologies
– Data basis
• Submissions of CRF and NIR
• Data gap filling
– Recalculations
• 0.21% (1990) and 0.46% (1999)
• Sector and MS contribution
– Reference approach
• Between –0.04% (1991) and 3.09% (1998)
– International bunkers, LUCF
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EC Inventory Report 2002 (3)
 Methodologies
– Methodologies, emission factors and
activity data
• CRF Tables Summary 3
– Uncertainties
• CRF Tables 7
• Overview of uncertainty information
from NIR
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EC Inventory Report 2002 (4)
 Methodologies
– Key sources
• Key source analysis on basis CRF Table
Summary 1.A
• For each key source level and trend
contribution of MS plus information
from CRF Table Summary 3 and Table 7
– QA/QC
• Initial checks
• Overview of QA/QC procedures in place
in MS
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EC Inventory Report 2002 (5)
 Methodologies
– Differences in submissions 2001
• Late submissions
• Reporting in CRF category 5
– Software tools
– Completeness
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EC Inventory Report 2002 (6)
 Annex
– Annex A: CRF Tables for the EC
• Full set of CRF tables
• Sectoral and background tables filled with NE
– Annex B: Status reports
– Annex C: CRF Tables Summary 1.A of the
EC MS
– Annex D: MS CRF tables and inventory
reports
http://reports.eea.eu.int/technical_
report_2002_75/en
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UNFCCC review report (1)
 Level of detail of reporting / CRF
– Provide full CRF in order to improve
transparency
 Provide summary tables on methodologies,
emission factors and activity data
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EC CRF Table Summary 3
EC CRF Table 7
EC key sources
Overview tables of uncertainty and QA/QC
from MS NIR
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UNFCCC review report (2)
 Ensure consistency between EC and
sum of MS submissions
– Chapter explaining inconsistencies in
2001
 Improve transparency
– Annex with status reports
 Provide recalculations
– CRF Tables 8
– Chapter on recalculations
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UNFCCC review report (3)
 Trend information
– Chapter on GHG trends
– Reference to GHG trend report
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