REVIEW REPORT FOR UKRAINE

II. ENERGY

A. Sector overview (con't)

22. The ERT welcomes the efforts made by Ukraine to provide additional methodological information and background in the NIR and recommends that Ukraine provide a detailed overview of the assumptions made and the underlying emission factors (EFs) and AD used. The ERT believes that transparency in the NIR  could be further improved if Ukraine were able to provide some additional information on the steps followed to ensure time-series consistency as well as explanations of the trends observed.

23. The NIR reports a limited discussion on the statistical forms used as the basis for the compilation of the inventory and on how the data in these forms was handled to complete the CRF tables. As these statistical forms constitute one of the main sources of AD, the ERT recommends that Ukraine include a more detailed description of this in its next NIR.

24. Ukraine has provided no specific discussion of its QA/QC and verification procedures for the energy sector in the NIR. When reviewing the NIR and the CRF tables, editorial mistakes and incorrect or out-of-date values were identified, which could have been avoided by a better application of the QC procedures (e.g., certain incorrect values are reported in the tables in annex 4 of the NIR). The ERT also recommends the application of further QA/QC checks related to time-series consistency and the correctness of the information presented in the CRF tables, and that Ukraine clearly document all the QA/QC and verification procedures performed in its next NIR.