National Inventory System of Austria (NISA)

UNECE Workshop Uzbekistan – Tashkent 19-21th May 2015

NATIONAL SYSTEM The Austrian National Inventory System (NISA) and its Quality Management System (QMS) covers both GHG and Non-GHG. The requirements as specified under the Kyoto Protocol and in particular in the QMS are therefore affecting the whole inventory, covering all gases that have to be reported under both Conventions (UNFCCC, UNECE/LRTAP) and the EU legislation (e.g. NEC directive).

PRINCIPLE OF GOOD PRACTICE INVENTORY Good Practice is a collection of methodological principals, actions and procedures intended to ensure that greenhouse gas inventories are accurate in the sense that they are systematically neither over nor underestimates so far as can be judged, and that uncertainties are reduced so far as possible.

Good Practice covers choice of estimation methods appropriate to national circumstances, quality assurance and quality control at the national level, quantification of uncertainties and data archiving and reporting to promote transparency. (Source: IPCC GPG) It is good practice for the GHG inventory to be

T ransparent Accurate

Consistent Comparable

Complete

on time

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL ACT (FEDERAL LAW GAZETTE 152/1998)

§ 5 (regulates responsibilities of the Umweltbundesamt) Regulates responsibilities regarding environmental control in Austria and is also the basis for the outsourcing of the ‘Umweltbundesamt GmbH’

§ 6 (regulates tasks of the Umweltbundesamt) (2)15 …the Umweltbundesamt is obliged to prepare “technical expertise for compliance with UNECE/LRTAP convention […] and with the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol, including the preparation of emission inventories, evaluation of the impact of measures, and assistance in preparation of reports regarding climate”.

§ 11 (regulates financing of the Umweltbundesamt) …ensures financial resources for preparation of tasks as referred to in para 6.

§ 7 (regulates issues related to data security) …the Umweltbundesamt is a public authority and can therefore process (confidential) personal data and can exchange these data with other public authorities.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Umweltbundesamt is designated as single national entity responsible for inventory preparation including QA/QC.

UNFCCC EC

Austria‘s reporting obligations

Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management

Umweltbundesamt

Quality Manager

Inspection body for GHG inventories

Inventory by Sector Experts

Head of Inspection body

Land Use & Biosafety

Air pollution Control & Climate Change

Mitigation

Pollutants & Man

Transport & Noise

Waste & Material Flow Management

Department

INSPECTION BODY FOR EMISSION INVENTORIES

HI Klaus Radunsky Deputy: Manfred Ritter

QR Katja Pazdernik Deputy: Claudia Leeb (Karenz)

PM Stephan Poupa Deputy: Manuela Wieser (Karenz)

SE Energy Stephan Poupa (Lead) Carmen Schmid

SE Industrial Processes Lorenz Moosmann (Lead) Heide Jobstmann

SE Solvents Sabine Schindlbacher (Lead) Katja Pazdernik

SE Agriculture Michael Anderl (Lead) Simone Haider SE LULUCF Peter Weiss (Lead) Alexandra Freudenschuss SE Waste Katja Pazdernik (Lead) Christoph Lampert

DM Stephan Poupa Deputy: Michael Gager RC NEC Michael Anderl

RC NIR Katja Pazdernik

RC IIR Simone Haider

SE Transport Gudrun Stranner (Lead) Günther Lichtblau

SE Fugitive Emissions Sabine Schindlbacher (Lead) Katja Pazdernik

IS Traute Köther

http://www.umweltbundesamt.at/en/en_aboutus/en_organigramm/

Establishing an inter-disciplinary inventory team

Key functions:

HI Head of Inspection

QR Quality Representative

SE Sector Expert

SL Sector Lead

Supporting functions:

PM Project Manager

DM Data Manager

RC Report Coordinator

IS Inventory Support

AUSTRIAN INVENTORY TEAM ROLES &RESPONSIBILITIES

• NIR/IIR report (chapter) writing • providing background data for CRF/NFR tables • QA/QC procedures

NIR project manager Methodological

IIR project manager Methodological

OLI project manager Technical

Transport

Industrial Processes Solvents

Agriculture LULUCF Waste

Fugitives

sector expert

─ CO2 ─ CH4 ─ N2O ─ HFCs ─ PFCs ─ SF6

─ SO2 ─ NOx ─ NMVOC ─ NH3 ─ CO

─ Heavy metals ─ POPs ─ Particular matter

Energy

• collecting activity data, emission factors and other relevant information

• emission estimation

NATIONAL INVENTORY SYSTEM AUSTRIA

EC ETS Data EC LCP Data EC WI Data EC FC Data EC IED data E-PRTR Data

Submission under UNFCCC and under the Kyoto Protocol

National Inventory Report (NIR) CRF Tables (Common Reporting Format)

Submission under UNECE/LRTAP

Informative Inventory Report (IIR) NFR Tables (Nomenclature for Reporting)

Submission under EC GHG Monitoring Mechanism

CRF Tables/Short-NIR

Submission under EC NEC NFR Tables for NEC gases

State-of-the-Environment Report (SoE report) Reports to the parliament

Reports for the public

UNFCCC + Kyoto Protocol

UNECE/LRTAP + Protocols

EC Greenhouse Gas Monitoring

Mechanism

Environmental Control Act

(Federal Legal Gazette 1998/152)

EC NEC Directive

National System

Quality Management System including

Good Practice

National Inventory System Austria (NISA)

according to the Kyoto-Protocol, Article 5.1

Austrian Air Emission Inventory

AUSTRIAN EMISSION INVENTORY Österreichische Luftschadstoff-Inventur (OLI)

Exist since 1994; estimations of emission of SO2 started in 1978 under the UNECE/LRTAP Convention - EMEP

Prepared annually Comprises the greenhouse gases CO2, CH4, N2O, HFC, PFC and SF6, and the

air pollutants SO2, NOx, NMVOC, NH3, CO, heavy metals (Cd, Hg, Pb), persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and particulate matter (TSP, PM10 & PM2.5)

Is used as data base for fulfilment of national and inter-national reporting obligations

Is subject to a continuous improvements process Accredited since 2005 as Inspection Body for Emission Inventories

according to ISO/EN17020.

Currently about 550 sources, 6 greenhouse gases and 14 air pollutants time series 1980 – 2011 respectively 1985 - 2011

INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS I

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW) – Lebensministerium

Emission data (CO2) and Activity data from Installations under the EU Emission trading scheme (EU ETS) Federal law gazette 118/2011 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading (Emissionszertifikategesetz (EZG) 2011) ⇒ Implementation of European EU ETS Directive 2009/29/EC

INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS II

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW) – Lebensministerium

Activity data from Land deposit sites Austrian Landfill Ordinance No. 39/2008 (Deponieverordnung) ⇒ Implementation of the European Directive 99/31/EC on the landfill of waste, European Directive 2003/33/EC on establishing criteria and procedures for the acceptance of waste at landfill, European Directive 2006/12/EC on waste

Activity data regarding waste incineration Austrian Waste Incineration Ordinance No. 35/2013 (Abfallverbrennungsverordnung) ⇒ Implementation of Directive 2000/76/EC on incineration of waste

INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS III

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW) – Lebensministerium

Emission data collected in the framework of E-PRTR Austrian Ordinance No. 380/2007 concerning the establishment of the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register ⇒ Implementation of E-PRTR Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 and

UN-ECE PRTR Protocol (2003) Emission data (SO2, NOx, dust) and activity data from steam boiler

installations Federal law gazette 127/2013 establishing integrated pollution prevention and control (Emissionsschutzgesetz für Kesselanlagen (EG-K) 2013) ⇒ Implementation of the European Large Combustion Plant (LCP) Directive 2009/29/EC

INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS IV

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW) – Lebensministerium

EDM - Electronic Data Management - http://edm.gv.at set up by Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry,

Environment and Water Management, BMLFUW and operated by Umweltbundesamt

an information network which allows enterprises and authorities to handle registration and notification obligations in the waste and environment sectors online.

EDM aimed at sustainably reducing the administrative burden of enterprises and authorities to efficient, electronic recording and notification systems and to ensure a high level of environmental protection in Austria.

INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS V

Austrian statistical office (Statistik Austria)

Activity data Statistical yearbook National Energy balance

(comprehensive/detailed Energy balance and IEA/Eurostat questionnaire) Contract with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry,

Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW) Production/Import/Export statistics for solvents, F-gases Agricultural statistics Transport Statistics Flight movements per aircraft type and airports

DATA SOURCES FOR ACTIVITY DATA Sector Data Sources for Activity Data Emission Calculation Energy Energy Balance from Statistik Austria;

EU-ETS; Steam boiler database; Umweltbundesamt, plant operators

Transport Energy Balance from Statistik Austria Umweltbundesamt (Aviation), Technical University Graz (Road and Off-road transport)

Industry National production statistics, import/export statistics; EU-ETS; direct information from industry or associations of industry

Umweltbundesamt, plant operators F-gases based on a study by: Öko-Recherche GmbH, Frankfurt (2010, 2011)

Solvent Short term statistics for trade and services Austrian foreign trade statistics Structural business statistics Surveys at companies and associations

Umweltbundesamt, based on studies by: Institut für industrielle Ökologie and Forschungsinstitut für Energie und Umweltplanung, Wirtschaft und Marktanalysen GmbH*

Sector Data Sources for Activity Data Emission Calculation Agriculture National Studies, national agricultural

statistics obtained from Statistik Austria; Umweltbundesamt, based on studies by: University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Research Center Seibersdorf

LULUCF National forest inventory obtained from the Austrian Federal Office and Research Centre for Forest National agricultural statistics and land use statistics obtained from Statistik Austria

Umweltbundesamt

Waste Database on landfills run by the Umweltbundesamt (1998-2007), Electronic Data Management operated by the BMLFUW (from 2008 on)

Umweltbundesamt

DATA SOURCES FOR ACTIVITY DATA

INVENTORY PREPARATION PROCESS

Inventory planning • team • timetable • data sources • key source analysis • …

I . I nventory planning

II . I nventory

preparation

III . I nventory

management

Preparation of the inventory includes three stages.

Inventory compiling includes • planning of how to distribute available resources (manpower, time,…), • prioritization of planned improvements: focus on political or public awareness

due to current environmental problems or emission reduction limits … hard to meet…

Inventory preparation • collecting data • emission estimation • report writing • QA/QC • …

Inventory management • data processing • data storage & backup • access authorization • …

For estimation of emissions the following activities are necessary: collecting activity data, emission factors and other relevant information choosing the methodology if needed new studies (by contractors)

As sources of emission factors and/or methodology are used Revised 1996 IPCC GL, IPCC GPG, IPCC GPG LULUCF, 2006 IPCC GL EMEP/EEA air pollutant emission inventory guidebook (formerly referred to

as the EMEP CORINAIR emission inventory guidebook) National studies and scientific reports

…estimating emissions

INVENTORY PREPARATION

…writing the NIR/IIR

TIME SCHEDULE FOR INVENTORY PREPARATION

• log, number all incoming data

• check data against previous years

• use IEA data • check units, time series

consistency • report inconsistencies back

to statistics (NSI) • transform Nace-CRF/NFR • document on QA/QC • methodology-online

manual

• Time series consistency

• sector/pollutant expert check

• Global check • Explain large changes • Database fuel totals-

vs-National statistics • Database-read only • mass balance checks

• check database CRF/NFR output

• CRF/NFR totals • check for large

changes from previous year (recalculation)

• database files • spreadsheet

files • source data • manuals • report

Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug

Data collection

Spreadsheet development

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Archiving

Ongoing/year-round activities • Peer reviews • review of emission factors

-check tables and numbers -Second person check

ANNUAL PROCEDURE FOR PREPARING AND UPDATING OF THE GHG INVENTORY

Management-Review (Aug)

Report and evaluation of the quality management system (QMS) fulfillment & plan for the QMS and inventory improvement

Kick-Off (Sept) Meeting of sector experts, deputies, and project-/quality and data managers of the inventory; definition of a working plan

15. January Submission of GHG inventory (CRF & Short-NIR) to the EC 15. Jan - 28. Feb Check of data by European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change 15. March Submission of GHG inventory (NIR) to the EC 15. April Submission of GHG inventory (CRF & NIR) to the UNFCCC June - March Check of data by UNFCCC:

– Stage 1: Initial Check – Stage 2: Synthesis and Assessment – Stage 3: Individual Review annual reviews by UN expert review teams

until 15. January Preparation and update of the GHG inventory with consideration of recommendations from the EC and UNFCCC

ANNUAL PROCEDURE FOR PREPARING AND UPDATING OF THE AIR EMISSION INVENTORY

Management-Review (Aug)

Report and evaluation of the quality management system (QMS) fulfillment & plan for the QMS and inventory improvement

Kick-Off (Sept) Meeting of sector experts, deputies, and project-/quality and data managers of the inventory; definition of a working plan

31. December Submission of NEC inventory (NFR) to the EC 15. February Submission of UNECE/LRTAP inventory (NFR) to CEIP 15. March Submission of UNECE/LRTAP inventory (IIR) to CEIP Mai - June Check of data by CEIP:

– Stage 1: Initial Check – Stage 2: Synthesis and Assessment – Stage 3: Individual Review annual reviews by UN expert review teams

until 15. January Preparation and update of the air emission inventory with consideration of recommendations from CEIP

NATIONAL INVENTORY SYSTEM AUSTRIA (NISA) The report “National Inventory System Austria (NISA)” presents an overview of National Inventory System and evaluates its compliance with the guidelines for national systems under Art. 5, para. 1, of the Kyoto Protocol.

Report Date

Austria’s ’s Annual Air Emission Inventory under der NECD (NFR) December

Austria’s Annual Greenhouse Gas Inventory (CRF, Short NIR) January

Austria’s ’s Annual Air Emission Inventory (NFR) February

Austria’s Informative Inventory Report (IIR, NFR) Austria’s National Inventory Report under the EU MM (NIR, CRF)

March

Austria’s National Inventory Report (NIR, CRF) April

Report on Climate Change Mitigation in Austria ‚Klimaschutzbericht‘ May

Emission trend in Austria ‚Emissionstrends in Österreich‘ May

Disaggregation of national emissions on the level of federal states ‘Bundesländer Luftschadstoff-Inventur (BLI)‘

October

Publications to the Austrian Air Emission Inventory (OLI)

QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Important component of the Austrian National Inventory System is the quality management system (QMS) according to EN ISO/IEC 17020.

Accreditation according to EN ISO/IEC 17020 provides evidence of (1) an efficient quality management system; (2) technical competence of the involved staff; (3) independence, impartiality, and integrity of the involved staff. The requirements of EN ISO/IEC 17020 (Type A) are fulfilled. A Type A inspection body provides “third party” services. http://www.umweltbundesamt.at/umweltsituation/luft/emissionsinventur/emi_ueberwachung/

ACCREDITED INSPECTION BODY The Umweltbundesamt is accredited as inspection body for emission inventories (Id.No. 241) in accordance with the Austrian Accreditation Law (AkkG), Federal Law Gazette No. 468/1992 last amended by federal law gazette I No. 85/2002, by decree of the Minister of Economics and Labour, No. BMWA-92.715/0036-I/12/2005, issued on 19.01.2006, valid from 23.12.2005.

On the 13th and 14th January 2011 a comprehensive external audit by the accreditation body took place. This ‘Re-Accreditation’ is obligatory every 5 years and aims at examining the “Inspection Body for Emission Inventories” respectively its QM-System in detail.

The requirements of EN ISO/IEC 17020 (Type A) are fulfilled.

INSPECTION BODY FOR EMISSION INVENTORIES (IBE) MANAGEMENT REVIEW REPORT

Head of Inspection body reviews the IBE’s management system once a year required according to IEC/ISO 17020 special focus in the past/previous inventory year/cycle performance of past/previous inventory improvement plan challenges in coming/following inventory year/cycle plan for the QMS and Inventory improvement additional QA/QC and verification activities, training needs

and additional (human) resources, studies, etc. Report presented to and discussed with the managing director of the

Environment Agency Austria

KEY CATEGORY ANALYSIS (KCA) The identification of key categories of the GHG inventory (including KP-LULUCF) consists of six steps: Identifying categories Tier 1 and Tier 2

Level Assessment and Trend Assessment excluding LULUCF Level Assessment and Trend Assessment including LULUCF

Qualitative considerations

Key categories without LULUCF comprise 78 771 Gg CO2eq (2011), corresponds to 95.1% of Austria’s total GHG emissions (without LULUCF).

Key categories including LULUCF amounted to 74 960 Gg CO2eq (2011), corresponds to 95.1% of Austria’s total GHG emissions (with LULUCF).

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS Uncertainty calculations were performed using a spreadsheet prepared specifically according to the

Tier 1 approach (IPCC 2000), and with a Monte Carlo approach (Tier 2) fully considering statistical dependence

of detailed input data. For the update of the uncertainty assessment of the Austrian GHG inventory,

the most detailed level of the inventory system was used as the base level. Uncertainty information was taken from national studies, from international

information (as e.g. in the IPCC reports), from variation presented in literature and by contacting national experts.

INVENTORY DATA MANAGEMENT OF THE AUSTRIAN EMISSION INVENTORY

The core ‘database’ (which is more like an expert system) is based on Excel spreadsheets with VBA macros.

The repository also stores all sector specific calculation sheets prepared by the inventory experts. all products (reports, tables) needed for UNFCCC submissions .

The repository (intranet server) includes ‘database’ and all calculation files (versions) are archived for each inventory

(back to 2002) which allows tracing back all calculations. electronical archive which stores all relevant data used for inventory

preparation such as statistics, emission declarations, studies, relevant email information, documents/reports relevant to inventory reviews.

TREND OF AUSTRIAN SO2 EMISSIONS

29

TREND OF AUSTRIAN NOX EMISSIONS

30

TREND OF AUSTRIAN NMVOC EMISSIONS

31

TREND OF AUSTRIAN PM2.5 EMISSIONS

32

NATIONAL INVENTORY SYSTEM AUSTRIA SUMMARY I

NISA should allow to prepare high-quality emission inventories in which uncertainties are reduced as far as feasible and in which data are developed in a transparent, consistent, complete, comparable and accurate manner.

Umweltbundesamt is the single national entity with overall responsibility for the national inventory

Responsibilities for inventory planning, preparation and management are specified and allocated within the Umweltbundesamt

The internal training plan of the Umweltbundesamt ensures the technical competence of the staff involved.

Inventory preparation is performed according to the 2000 IPCC Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management of

GHG Inventories.

NATIONAL INVENTORY SYSTEM AUSTRIA SUMMARY II

The Quality Management System (QMS) has been developed and implemented to ensure the capacity for timely performance of the functions defined in the guidelines for national systems

Accredited Inspection Body for Emission Inventories according to International Standard 17020 General Criteria for the operation of various types of bodies performing inspection (accreditation since December 2005)

Quality improvement program Control System for data and calculations, for records and their

archiving as well as documentation of QA/QC activities Regular external audit of the QMS by independent third party

Contact & Information

Stephan Poupa Climate Change Mitigation & Emission Inventories E-Mail: stephan.poupa@umweltbundesamt.at

Umweltbundesamt GmbH

Spittelauer Lände 5, 1090 Wien, Austria

www.umweltbundesamt.at