ETC CM report 2023/09: Quality assurance and quality control procedure for national and Union GHG projections 2023
02 Feb 2024
Juan L. Martín Ortega (GAUSS), Sander Akkermans (GAUSS), Pepa Lopez (GAUSS), Javier Chornet (GAUSS), Courtney Szanto (AETHER), Rosie Brook (AETHER), Elisabeth Kampel (KLARFAKT), Marion Pinterits (KLARFAKT), Carmen Schmidt (UBA), Sabine Gores (Öko-Institut)
EEA project managers: Javier Esparrago, Magdalena Jóźwicka-Olsen
Abstract:
The quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) procedure is an element of the QA/QC programme of the Union system for policies and measures and projections according to Article 39 of the Regulation on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action (EU) 2018/1999. The European Environment Agency (EEA) is responsible for the annual implementation of the QA/QC procedures and is assisted by the European Topic Centre on Climate Change Mitigation and Energy (ETC/CM). The QA/QC procedure document describes QA/QC checks carried out at EU level on the national reported projections from Member States and on the compiled Union GHG projections. QA/QC procedures are performed at several different stages during the preparation of the national and Union GHG projections in order to aim to ensure the timeliness, transparency, accuracy, consistency, comparability and completeness of the reported information.
