1. Experience from LCP quality assurance process
2nd Eionet NRC workshop on Industrial Pollution

2. Quality assurance of LCP Data
Over the past ten years, reported LCP data showed:
An increase in the number of plants (+ 13 %)
Important year-to-year changes in energy inputs
Strong reductions in emissions (e.g % for EU total SO2 emissions)
The increase of plants and changes in energy input / emissions pose challenges to consistent reporting. Checks at the EU level are intended as a support for reporting high-quality data.

3. Quality objectives Reported data need to be …
Comparable across Member States
Transparent
Consistent over time
Complete
Consistent with data reported under other reporting obligations
Accurate
Partly covered by checks on EU level
Covered by checks on EU level

4. Quality checks and questions
Step 1: LCP data
Basic completeness
Comparison to previous years
Plausibility of fuel input
Emission outliers
Appraisal of comments
Step 2: E-PRTR comparison
Completeness of plants
Location check
Comparison of emissions
Additional questions
Linking the plants to those listed in the accession treaties
(for „policy evaluation“ study, see separate presentation)

5. Questions posed in 2015 and 2016
Many replies given in 2015 apply to all years, therefore fewer questions were posed in 2016.
The number of questions is still considerable – thank you for yor efforts in answering them!

6. Follow-up to the questions
In 2016, a larger share of questions was resolved.
Fewer questions remained unresolved and fewer entries had to be updated.

7. Examples of issues and how they were resolved
Plausibility checks revealed errors in emissions/energy input. They were corrected by Member States after confirmation by the operator.
Discrepancies between LCP and E-PRTR data in emissions/E-PRTR IDs/coordinates were found. These were corrected by Member States in the respective dataset.
There can also be errors in the questions – thank you for pointing them out and for clarifying.

8. Conclusions & outlook (I)
Quality checks helped improve the quality of the LCP dataset. It consitutes a comprehensive and consistent source of information.
The reporting and quality assurance process takes time. Thank you for your collaboration and timely responses to all the questions.
We are aware that the process can be further streamlined and simplified. We are working on making the process and questions clearer.

9. Conclusions & outlook (II)
The experience and your feedback on the data checks will be taken into account for future QA/QC in the course of LCP reporting under the IED (see discussion on day 2).
EU-wide LCP data are an important input for several studies, e.g. “Carbon lock-in” (which was sent for EIONET consultation) and “LCP policy evaluation” (see separate presentation).
The LCP dataset will be available in August 2016.

10. Conclusions & outlook (III): The 2014 dataset
Source: LCP database 2004 – 2013 (EU-27; EU-28 from 2010 onwards);
Preliminary data from submissions for 2014.

11. Thank you for your attention
Lorenz Moosmann