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Institutional and procedural arrangements of the German National System

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Institutional and procedural arrangement of the German National System on Emissions Inventories

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1 1st Autumn School of the International Partnership on Mitigation and MRV“MRV – today, tomorrow and the future” , 16.10.2012

Dirk GüntherGerman Federal Environment Agency


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� Emissions reporting in Germany

� Institutional arrangements under-pinning the German national system on emissions inventories

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� The Inventory Planning, Preparation and Management

� Trends of GHG in Germany


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Unit on Emission Situation - The Single National Ent ity

FG I 2.6FG I 2.6Wörlitzer Platz 1Wörlitzer Platz 106844 Dessau, 06844 Dessau, GermanyGermany

[email protected]@uba.de

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Implementation of Art. 5 (1) KP requirements in Ger many

• Country specific implementation of the Kyoto-Protocol

• Agreement by State Secretaries on the National System in June 2007

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• In-House Directive 11/2005 of the Federal Environment Agency

• Agreements of the SNE with other institutions and NGOs


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FederalInstitutions

FederalInstitutions ScienceScience

EconomyEconomy

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Institutionsof the

Federal States

Institutionsof the

Federal States

IndependendExperts

IndependendExperts

SectionSectionI 2.6I 2.6


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Networking for a successful inventory building -Agreement By State Secretaries on the National SystemAgreement By State Secretaries on the National System

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Co-ordinating Committee


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Working Groupon EnergyBalances

Institute of Agricultural

Climate Research

Definition and Allocation of specific responsibilit ies (Para 12c Annex 19/CMP.1)

External experts /research contractors

Co-ordinatingCommittee forthe National

System

Otherdepartments

Ministry of Economics Ministry of

Agriculture

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Associations

Länderauthorities

Companies

FederalStatistical

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Working groupon emissionsinventories

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Federal Environment Agency

German Emissions Trading Authority=> Registry=> Accounting

Ministry ofthe Environment


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3rd SME Relief Act (MEG 3)

• Problem situation:=> No access to confidential data of the Federal Statistical Office

• Solution:

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– Legal implementation in a piggyback-method with MEG3

– Identical changes of three statistical laws– Environment Statistics Act– Act on Energy Statistics– Production Statistics Act


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Administrative Agreement with the Federal Statistic al Office

• Agreement concretises the relevant provisions of 3rd SME Act

• Determine “new rules” in data handling=> Transfer of responsibility for statistical confidentiality to the SNE

• Definition of data requirements of the Federal Environment Agency

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• Definition of data requirements of the Federal Environment Agency

• Definition of the QA / QS System to be in place at Destatis

• Update of the data requirements on an annual basis


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Co-operation agreements with industry

• Several case specific co-operation agreements with Busine ss Associationand enterprises

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• mainly in the Industrial Processes sector

• Enabling reporting according to TIER 3 methods


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Dealing with confidential data

• Storage and usage of this data requires special pro cedures to protect confidentiality and assure completeness of inventor ies

• Strict separation of analysis and enforcement

• Restricted access to these data

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• SNE has taken a range of measures to fulfil these r equirements

⇒ Codification in a concept


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The Single National Entity in Germany

Different roles :

coordination :National SystemQA/QCDatabase Management

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Database ManagementReport compilation

source category oriented:Energy (stat., mobile and fugitives)Industrial processes + solvent use (split over 4 c olleagues)Agriculture + LULUCF (external cooperation)Waste (-water and disposal management)


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Responsibilities of the Single National Entity

• serve as Central Focal Point for ALL inventory and reporting issues

• Assure and coordinate information and data flow

• Set up Framework of inventory planning

• Determine standards

• Assure Central documentation

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• Assure Central documentation

• Assure Central archiving

• Initiate and assure inventory improvement (QA/QC)

• Coordinate inventory issues for review


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Main working principles...- coordination of the multi layer network

�� cooperation and communication

- centralised system �� basically “top down approach”centralised set for AD multiuse

- ensuring T,C,C,C,A (and timeliness)T(ransparency) – documentation, reports, archivingC(onsistency) – QA/QC, central data base

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C(onsistency) – QA/QC, central data baseC(ompleteness) – QA/QCC(omparability) – participation in reviewsA(ccuracy) – QA/QC, uncertainty analysis

- verification – comparison with other data sourcesplant specific information (ETS), information from “Bundesländer”

- research


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Instruments of the Single National Entity

• Central System on Emissions (CSE)� Emissions calcualtion and –reporting� Storage and archiving of all inventory information

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• Quality System on Emission inventories (QSE)� Implementation of Good Practice Guidance for inventories� Preparation of a national improvement plan


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UNFCCCCRF

Tables

UNECE/

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IndustryMESAP Information System

DataAD x EF = EM

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UNECE/NFR

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National &PersonalReports

Agricult.

LULUCF

Waste

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CES Database

AD x EFPollutant = EMPollutant


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QSE: Quality Control / QC-Plan

1. Source specific expert ( FV)� Data collection, data entry,

estimations and making of NIR texts, QC checks

2. QC responsible head of the QKV

4. Coordinator for the National Inventory Reporting ( NIRK)� Compilation of the NIR, Overall QC

on NIR texts, QC checks5. Coordinator for the CSE ( ZSEK)

Role concept and checklists

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2. QC responsible head of the section ( QKV)� QC checks on completed data

and texts and approval of these

3. Source specific contact person ( FAP)� Mentoring and supervision of

FV and QKV� Give assistance on the

requirements and on the preparation of data & texts

� Maintain the data bank, emission estimation and aggregation

6. Coordinator for the QSE ( QSEK)� Maintain and improve the QSE

(System, Checklists, IP, QA/QC plan, Handbook)

7. Coordinator for the NaSE (NaSEK)� Ensuring institutional arrangements

and a timely reporting that is in accordance with the requirements


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QSE: Quality Assurance / QA -Plan

QA-PlanConsists of QA measures that are implemented in the procedures for

annual inventory preparation:

1. Internal QA performed by QKV on FV results(concerning texts and data)

2. External QA (inside UBA) performed by FAP on

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2. External QA (inside UBA) performed by FAP on FV/QKV results (concerning texts, data, QC checks)

3. External QA (inside UBA) performed by NIRK on texts (in general)

4. Internal QA performed by ZSEK on databank (in general)

5. External Review (outside UBA) by staff of different ministries (e.g. Ministry for Environment, Ministry for Economics, Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forestry) on related topics


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Using Monitoring fromEU Emission Trading System (ETS) for verification

• All EU member states are called upon to use ETS dat a to improve the quality of their emissions inventories

• Use of aggregated data to draw source-category-spec ific conclusions regarding completeness and consistency of source ca tegories that include installations subject to reporting obligati ons under the ETS

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include installations subject to reporting obligati ons under the ETS

• Data are available in electronic form in the instal lations database of the German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt).

• General procedure for individual data queries since 2005

• Basis for reviewing EF and verifying AD


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Thank you very much for your interest!

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