Expert review teams

Initial check by the expert review team, with the assistance of the secretariat Individual inventory review by the expert review team.

The SBSTA shall provide general guidance to the secretariat on the selection of experts and coordination of the expert review teams and to the expert review teams on the expert review process.

Expert review teams and institutional arrangements

Composition of the expert review teams

The expert review team shall calculate

During the initial review the expert review team shall assess whether

During the annual review the expert review team shall assess whether

Expert review teams do not make decisions.

The expert review team shall, inter alia

Information on previous adjustment calculations by expert review teams.

Decision 12 CP.9 further requires that all members of expert review teams must sign an agreement for expert review services, which specifies the responsibilities, expected time commitment, and appropriate conduct for expert review team members, in particular with respect to the protection of confidential inventory information.

The expert review teams shall refrain from making any political judgement.

The expert review team shall review the national registry, including the information provided on it, to assess whether

The expert review team and the Party should strive to complete the review in the shortest time possible.

The expert review team may use relevant technical information in the review process, such as information from international organizations.

Instead, the secretariat will directly instruct expert review teams on these procedures.

Training programme for members of expert review teams for the initial review under the guidelines for review under Article 8 of the Kyoto Protocol

All of these 23 experts were successfully integrated in expert review teams in the 2004 and or 2005 review cycle.

An independent expert undertook a thorough review of the internal controls for Atlas.

However, the expedited nature of this review procedure shall not compromise the thoroughness of the examination by the expert review team.

Recommendations for improving the technical review of GHG inventories and for applying common approaches in the review by expert review teams (resulting from meetings of lead reviewers)

External technical expert panel review of the ongoing monitoring and verification plan (biological provisions)

This list should be prepared under the collective responsibility of the expert review team.

The expert review team shall conduct a thorough and comprehensive review of the national system of each Party included in Annex I.

The expert review team shall conduct a thorough and comprehensive review of the national registry of each Party included in Annex I.

Competences required to be members of the expert review teams for the review of annual information submitted under Article 7, paragraph 1 are

The secretariat shall convene an expert review team for conducting the expedited review procedures established in these guidelines in accordance with the relevant provisions of section E of part I of these guidelines and shall forward the information referred to in paragraph 3 above to this expert review team.

The expert review team may also consider any other information, including information previously submitted by the Party and any information relating to the Party's subsequent inventory, which the expert review team considers necessary in order to complete its task.

Reporting and publication The expert review team shall, under its collective responsibility, produce the following review reports for each Party included in Annex I

Lead reviewers shall act as co lead reviewers for the expert review teams under these guidelines.

The independent expert was informed of 218 cases of sexual violence during the period under review.

Lead reviewers also considered the appropriate treatment by expert review teams of comments received from Parties.

This technical guidance establishes general and specific procedures and methods for use by expert review teams to calculate adjustments.4 These procedures and methods are supplemented by inventory review resources listed in appendix I to this technical guidance, which will also facilitate consistency in calculation of adjustments by expert review teams.

A submission by a Party included in Annex I shall not be reviewed in two successive review years by expert review teams with identical composition.

The expert review team shall prepare a final individual inventory review report within four weeks of the receipt of the comments on the draft report.

During the review upon expiration of the additional period for fulfilling commitments, the expert review team shall review the information submitted by the Party under Article 7, paragraph 1, to assess whether

Possible recommendations by the expert review team on the conduct of the review in subsequent years, including which parts may need to be considered in more depth Information on any other issue of concern deemed relevant by the expert review team The sources of information used in the formulation of the final report.

Subject to a review under Article 8 and the acceptance of the revised estimate by the expert review team, the revised estimate shall replace the adjusted estimate.

The information contained in the inventory review resources listed here will be maintained by the UNFCCC secretariat and made available to expert review teams by electronic means.

Lead reviewers also provided additional guidance for use by expert review teams during the adjustment process in 2005.

(d) Expert meetings and working groups with a view to further anti corruption policy review and development conducted

Prior to the in country visit, the expert review team shall conduct a desk or centralized review of the national communication of the Party included in Annex I.

Meeting of inventory lead reviewers Under the UNFCCC review guidelines (FCCC CP 2002 8), expert teams are to be lead by two experts with substantial inventory review experience.

To facilitate a common approach to the reviews, the lead reviewers recommended that the secretariat develop the review handbook for this sector for use by expert review teams.