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1. Finland’s national system for estimating, reporting and archiving greenhouse gas inventory information UNFCCC Workshop on National Systems under Article 5, paragraph 1 of the Kyoto Protocol Wissenshaftszentrum, Bonn, Germany

2. Contents • Finland’s national system • background • institutional, legal and procedural arrangements • Inventory planning, preparation and management • responsibilities • approval process • archiving Riitta Pipatti

3. Background • The national greenhouse gas inventory reporting and monitoring system has been built up since 1990s (working groups under the Ministry of Environment) • Decision in principle of the Government of 30.1.2003 • defined the tasks of different authorities in national climate policy • Statistics Finland to become the national entity with the overall responsibility for the national GHG inventory • no new legislation needed Riitta Pipatti

4. Background • Transitional arrangements until end 2004 • Project for creating sufficient capacity in Statistics Finland • Agreements with other agencies and institutions participating in the inventory preparation • Agreements with participating ministries on responsibilites and support for the national system • National system operationalised formally in January 2005 Riitta Pipatti

5. Institutional and legal arrangements • Statistics Finland • national entity with the overall responsibility for the national GHG inventory • national authority for the official statistics of Finland • independency • access to information • close collaboration with producers of activity data, e.g. energy, industrial and waste statistics Riitta Pipatti

6. Institutional and legal arrangements • Participating institutes: Finnish Environment Institute, Finnish Forest Research Institute, MTT Agrifood Research Finland • expert/research organisations - good knowledge base on the sector and source/sink categories in question - good possibilities to further improve and develop the methodologies • participated in inventory preparation also earlier • signed agreements specifying responsibilities and tasks (agreements) • reporting categories, activity data, methodologies (tiers), timing of the reporting, etc. Riitta Pipatti

7. Institutional and legal arrangements • Other assignments and projects • transportation (VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland, Aviation Agency) - annual contribution • specific issues under development - on demand • uncertainty estimates and key source analysis • small-scale combustion (NMVOCs) • Non-CO2 GHGs from energy production (measurement project) • etc. Riitta Pipatti

8. Inventory protocols and responsible organisations • List of protocols • A. Stationary sources (fuel combustion in point sources, such as power plants, heating boilers, industrial combustion plants and processes) • B. Mobile sources (transport and off road machinery) • C. Other fuel combustion (agriculture, households, services, public sector, etc.) • D. Fugitive emissions from energy production and distribution • E. Emissions from industrial processes • F. Emissions of F-gases • G. Non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC) • H. Emissions from agriculture (non-combustion emissions) • I. Emissions from land use and land use change • J. Emissions from waste treatment • K. Other emissions • Responsible organisation • A. Statistics Finland • B. Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) • C. Statistics Finland • D. Statistics Finland • E. Statistics Finland • F. Finnish Environment Institute • G. Finnish Environment Institute • H. Agrifood Research Finland (MTT) • I. Finnish Forest Research Institute, • Agrifood Research Finland • J. Finnish Environment Institute • K. Statistics Finland Riitta Pipatti

9. Procedural arrangements • Statistics Finland • overall responsibility: administration and coordination • approves the inventory (reporting for the establishment of the Assigned Amount to be approved by the Government) • calculates emissions in the energy and industrial processes sectors (excluding F-gases) • participates in development of methodologies • QA/QC plan • communication with EU and UNFCCC (submissions, reviews) • coordinate participation in reviews • publishes (webpages) and archives results (some material like models archived at the institutes) Riitta Pipatti

10. Procedural Arrangements • Advisory Board • participants: ministries and participating institutes • changes in the national system • longer term research (planning, funding) • international collaboration (IPCC, UNFCCC reviews, EU, etc.) Riitta Pipatti

11. Procedural Arrangements • GHG Inventory working group • participation from all institutes participating in the inventory preparation (also ”long-term consultants”) • annual inventory planning (schedule, improvements and recalculations, development needs) • inventory prepartion • QA/QC, Verification • objectives, procedures, assessment Riitta Pipatti

12. Procedural Arrangements • Agreements with Ministries • specification of responsibilities; • assure funding for participating agencies and activity data collection, etc. Riitta Pipatti

13. Finland’s National System Riitta Pipatti