Agriculture & Nature Panel Nick Hutchings Barbara Amon Rainer Steinbrecher

Main items  Guidebook  Errors and omissions  Other feedback from users  Maintenance and improvement of Guidebook - workplan  Work plan for  Report from Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen

 No NFR subcode for NMVOC emissions from crops (4D)  Temporary solution suggested  4D2a  Note the emissions separately in IIR  Will suggest creation of new NFR code, for adoption in next update  Some errors in units in tables generated by the EFDB Guidebook – errors and omissions

Workplan   Review of NMVOC emissions in 4B  Review of ammonia emission from fertilisers   Methodology for ammonia emissions from biogas facilities

NMVOC emissions (4B)  NMVOC emissions from Animal Husbandry and Manure Management (4B)  Method but no emission factors for 4B  Placeholder table in Guidebook  Included review in Maintenance Plan  No funding = no review  Funding required: 60 days

4B NMVOC – action  Postpone review until 2011  US-EPA plan to establish emission factors in 2011  If no funding available  Will use/adapt US-EPA values  Pragmatic but unsatisfactory solution

Ammonia emission from fertilisers  Current methodology and emission factors are old  No funding was available = no review  Funding required: 25 days  Postpone until next year

Ammonia emissions from biogas production  Proposed extension of Tier 2 level methodology was accepted by panel  EP co-chairs will prepare short explanatory text for uploading to TFEIP website

Ammonia emission from crops  Under discussion for several years  Minor source in most countries but few data  Panel suggests including this as a source  Tier 1: 2 kg NH 3 ha -1 yr -1 from arable land  Will require more work

PM and POPs – crop production (4D)  No progress on PM emissions (no new data)  Modellers - resuspension of POPs  Pesticides (generally banned)  Wind erosion of soil  Agricultural field operations  The problem  A priority for modellers  Not a priority for inventory-makers

Workplan   Review of NMVOC emissions in 4B  Review of ammonia emission from fertilisers

Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen  4th meeting this week in Prague  Main focus – Annex IX of Gothenburg Protocol  Obligatory measures for abatement of ammonia emissions  Nothing finalised  Detailed specification of obligatory measures  TFEIP and TFRN need to monitor implications for reporting