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8. Overall, you should
evaluate (based on each Party’s submission) that a Party is striving
to use advanced methodologies and working to improve the availability and
quality of its data (e.g., activity data, emission factors, and other data
parameters), taking into account its national circumstances.
9. Remember, good data are extremely important (as or more important than the
method used). You should critically assess to the quality of a
Party’s data. In keeping with your prioritization plan to finish the
review in the time allotted, you should probe for the characteristics of
each Party’s data, including its data collection procedures, caveats,
etc., in an effort to determine the quality and proper application of data.
10. Although you should be critical in your reviews, you should also be
constructive. You should point out the good and bad aspects of a
Party’s submission and encourage it to make improvements (e.g.,
“Party X should collect more detailed data on usage of SF6
by magnesium casting operations"). Again, this constructive feedback
should focus on the four fundamentals: methods, data, the national
inventory process (institutional arrangements/system), and transparency
(documentation).
11. Remember, the review process is cumulative. You are building upon
previous years' review reports and earlier review stages within the same
year. You should use these earlier materials to help you identify potential
problems or omissions in a Party’s submission. However, in the
individual review stage, you are expected to only use the issues identified
in earlier stages as a starting point. Your investigations should be
sufficiently rigorous to identify any problems with a Party's inventory
that were not identified in early stages. When writing your review report,
you are also providing information to future reviewers, who will be
following up (i.e., investigating further) the issues you raise in your
report.
12. Lastly, we can’t emphasize this fundamental too much!
Transparency and Documentation!
Documentation (transparency) is essential for understanding how an
inventory was prepared and should be rigorously assessed. If you have not
been provided adequate documentation on how a Party prepared its inventory
(or a particular estimate) you cannot assess whether it was prepared
correctly! Despite the best technical efforts by the Party, it has failed
if it did not provide a well documented inventory submission.
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