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EIONET Reporting and EEA EIONET Reporting and EEA Priority DataflowsPriority Dataflows

Keimpe WieringaEEA European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change

31 October 2006

7th Joint TFEIP & EIONET meetingThessaloniki (Greece)

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EIONET Priority Data Flows EIONET Priority Data Flows 2005-06: Overall Performance2005-06: Overall Performance

• 12 priority data flows, a.o. soil, water, emissions and air quality

• Criteria: completeness and timeliness

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Priority Dataflows Air and ClimatePriority Dataflows Air and Climate

Objectives:

1. Improving coverage and completeness

2. Improving quality3. Assessments4. Timeliness (will not be addressed)5. Compliance (will not be addressed)

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What are the EIONET PDFs?What are the EIONET PDFs?

1. GHG emission inventories2. LRTAP and NEC emission inventory3. Air Quality monitoring (will not be addressed)

General remark: difference in EIONET data flows between EU-25 (also compliance) and non-EU25 EEA countries

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Completeness GHG emissionsCompleteness GHG emissions

• Submissions countries: excellent• Many resubmissions due to UNFCCC review

process• Countries missing 2004: Malta, Cyprus,

Bulgaria (UNFCCC), Iceland (UNFCCC), Liechtenstein (UNFCCC), Croatia, Turkey (UNFCCC)

• Countries missing years/CRF tables: Luxembourg, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland,

Slovakia

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Completeness LRTAP and NEC Completeness LRTAP and NEC emissionsemissions

• Submissions countries: good • All countries deliver in NFR format (level 2)• Countries missing: Luxembourg, Lithuania, Romania,

Liechtenstein, Turkey • Countries missing gases: Portugal, Malta, Croatia.

Iceland, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia

note 1) EIONET PDF is subset of LRTAP reporting obligations

note 2) NEC data flow is (more or less) subset of LRTAP

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QA/QC Priority DataflowsQA/QC Priority Dataflows

• Legal basis• QA/QC programme in place• Goal: improving EIONET PDFs provides information

for assessment, but also supports countries compliance with EU and Convention obligations

• Various checks: a.o. timeliness, completeness, consistency

• Application formats: built-in checks for improving quality, but also speeds up annual cycle

• Collaboration with countries: excellent feedback

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Perspective 2007-08Perspective 2007-08

• Go4: EC, JRC, Eurostat and EEA• Towards a Shared European Information System

(SEIS)• EEA: 2 data centres on air and climate change• Aim: improving data reporting, quality control, storage

and dissemination

• Policy challenge: further streamlining and harmonising emission reporting (GHG, NEC, LRTAP, EPER, E-PRTR)

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Current progress EEA and ETC/ACCCurrent progress EEA and ETC/ACC

• 1st Trial review meeting CLRTAP/NEC emissions data (Copenhagen)

• EU GHG emission inventory to UNFCCC• EU LRTAP emission inventory 1990-2004

• EEA report on Air pollution at street level in European cities (2005)

• EEA report on ancillary benefits of climate policies for air pollution (2006)

• EEA report on GHG trends and projections

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Prospects EEA and ETC/ACCProspects EEA and ETC/ACC

• New ETC/ACC contract (2007-10)• Belgrade report (2007)• Report Air pollution in Europe (2007)

Thank you for your collaboration and feedback!