The broader question regarding institutional arrangements goes back to our four fundamentals. Is the Party working to build an overall national inventory process (system)? These checks should be much more rigorously investigated during an in-country review, where you have an opportunity to interact with the Party’s experts and see its institutional arrangements.

However, each Party should provide documentation in its National Inventory Report (NIR) on its overall inventory process and its institutional arrangements. This documentation should address the following issues:

• Institutional, legal and procedural arrangements necessary to produce inventory
• Single national entity with inventory responsibility
• Inventory planning (define responsibilities, choice of methods and data)
• Preparation (use of good practice guidance, data collection, inventory uncertainty)
• Quality assurance and quality control procedures
• Reporting and archive inventory information

For example, each Party should have a clearly designated inventory agency. You should check that the Party has been transparent in how it addresses the following issues with regards to its inventory agency:

·  Staffing of this agency
·  The agency’s legal basis for performing work
·  The agency’s role in the rigorous implementation of QA/QC
·  The agency’s relationships with other relevant organizations within the Party

Overall, each Party’s inventory process and institutional arrangements should be focused on continual improvement in the quality of its national inventory, especially in regards to data quality.

More complete guidance on the review of Parties’ these issues is provided in guidelines for National Systems under Article 5.1 of the Kyoto Protocol (see Decision 19/CMP.1).