9) Remember that you have a wealth of guidance material available to help you in your work, including the UNFCCC Review Guidelines, the recommendations of the Lead Reviewers’ meetings and the UNFCCC Review Handbook developed and updated periodically by the Secretariat. Be sure that you are familiar with them and know how to access them as you are performing your review duties.

10) The Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines, the IPCC Good Practice Guidance and the IPCC Good Practice Guidance for LULUCF are your primary technical resources for inventory reviews. These guidelines, though, are not perfectly prescriptive (i.e., they do not tell Parties exactly how to select each method or data source under all circumstances, although decision trees are provided). Parties are given flexibility to use the best available methods and data sources, given that they are of equivalent quality to those described in the IPCC Good Practice Guidance. Therefore, you will have to use your expert judgment in your assessment of the quality of each Party’s inventory submission. There is no single Good Practice method that will optimally address the unique features of each Party’s national circumstances.

11) In addition to the various guidance materials, you will also be 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. But you should be sure that in your review you go beyond issues identified in previous review reports and in the Synthesis and Assessment (S&A).

12) Lastly, although you should be critical in your review report, you should also be constructive. You should point out both the good and bad aspects of a Party’s submission and offer encouragement to make specific improvements.