Status of the emission reporting guidelines Kristin Rypdal

Status Post-Thessaloniki draft sent out Technical issues agreed to All references to EMEP grid put in an Annex A few editorial changes Technical issues agreed to Will be edited and presented to EMEP SB in 2007 Endorsement may be in 2007 or 2008

Strenghtening of the Guidelines Working Group on Strategies and Review in March Brought up with WGSR as a concrete proposal for adding ”shalls” IIR, Guidebook, QA/QC systems, use of templates etc WGSR agreed to the the principle of the need to strenghten the guidelines to support improvements in data quality

Strenghtening of the Guidelines (2) Objections to the principle of using ”shalls” in the guidelines A group of legal experts will look into the principles and report in June May also suggest other ways of strengthening the guidelines

Policy issues Some policy issues were not agreed to ”Fuel used vs. fuel sold” Climate adjustments of emissions Need to be addressed later in 2007 Guidelines may be postponed

Phase-in Should use of templates be offered on a voluntary basis from the 2008 reporting round?

Pending issue Paragraph on resubmission Should the Guidelines allow Parties to make resubmissions for correction of errors after the reporting deadline? Re-submission of data are accepted in the case of corrections to errors… Parties should clarify the content of re-submissions, specifying where changes have been made over the original submission. Re-submissions made after 10 March will not be integrated into WEBDAB and cannot be considered for modelling purposes.

Pending issue (2) NFR to SNAP (RAINS issue) Propose to make this available on web NFR must be fixed, linkages can be developed