Functions of national inventory systems
In the implementation of the national inventory systems pursuant to Article 37 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, each Member State shall:
(a)
establish and maintain the institutional, legal and procedural arrangements necessary to perform the functions pursuant to Articles 27 to 29, between the government agencies and other entities responsible for the performance of all functions;
(b)
ensure sufficient capacity for timely performance of the functions pursuant to Articles 27 to 29, including data collection for estimating anthropogenic GHG emissions by sources and removals by sinks and arrangements for technical competence of the staff involved in the inventory development process.
Inventory planning
1. As part of its inventory planning, each Member State shall:
(a)
designate a single national entity with overall responsibility for the national inventory and make available its postal and electronic addresses;
(b)
define and allocate specific responsibilities in the inventory development process, including those relating to choice of methods, data collection, particularly activity data and emission factors from statistical services and other entities, processing and archiving, and quality control and quality assurance;
(c)
elaborate an inventory quality assurance and quality control plan which describes specific quality control procedures to be implemented during the inventory development process, facilitate the overall quality assurance procedures to be conducted and establish quality objectives;
(d)
consider establishing processes for the official consideration and approval of the inventory, if relevant including any recalculations, prior to its submission and to respond to any issues raised by the inventory review processes.
2. As part of its inventory planning, each Member State shall where relevant consider ways to improve the quality of activity data, emission factors, methods and other relevant technical elements of inventories. Information obtained from the implementation of the quality assurance and quality control plan, from reviews under Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 525/2013, Article 38 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 and under the UNFCCC shall where appropriate be considered in the development and/or revision of the quality assurance and quality control plan and the quality objectives.
Inventory preparation
1. In accordance with the greenhouse gas inventory guidelines, each Member State shall:
(a)
identify key categories and prepare estimates applying appropriate methods to estimate emissions and removals from key categories;
(b)
collect sufficient activity data, process information and emission factors necessary to support the methods selected for estimating anthropogenic GHG emissions by sources and removals by sinks;
(c)
make a quantitative estimate of inventory uncertainty for each category and for the inventory in total and prepare recalculations of previously submitted estimates of anthropogenic GHG emissions by sources and removals by sinks;
(d)
compile the national inventory and implement general inventory quality control procedures in accordance with their quality assurance and quality control plan.
2. As part of its inventory preparation, each Member State shall where appropriate:
(a)
apply category-specific quality control procedures for key categories and for individual categories where significant methodological and/or data revisions have occurred, in accordance with the greenhouse gas inventory guidelines;
(b)
provide for a basic review of the inventory by an independent third party or personnel not involved in the inventory development,, before the submission of the inventory, in accordance with the planned quality assurance procedures referred to in Article 27(1)(c);
(c)
provide for a more extensive review for key categories and categories where significant changes in methods occurred;
(d)
based on the reviews according to the transparency MPGs and in accordance with Article 38 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 and periodic internal evaluations of the inventory preparation process, re-evaluate the inventory planning process in order to meet the established quality objectives referred to in Article 27(1)(c) of this Regulation.
Inventory management
1. As part of their inventory management, each Member State shall:
(a)
each year for the reported time series, archive inventory information including: all disaggregated emission factors, activity data, and documentation about how these were generated and aggregated; internal documentation on quality assurance and quality control procedures, external and internal reviews, documentation on annual key sources and key source identification and planned inventory improvements.
(b)
provide review teams under the transparency MPGs and Article 38 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 with access to all archived information used by the Member State to prepare the inventory, taking into account country-specific confidentiality rules.
(c)
respond to requests for clarifying inventory information resulting from the different stages of the review processes of the inventory information, and information on the national system, in a timely manner.
2. As part of their inventory management, each Member State shall where appropriate make the collection of archived information easily accessible
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