Transcript Presentation on the Oslo Group

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Mrs. Jun Toutain
Head of the secretariat of the Oslo Group
OG5 – 1 February 2010
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Who are the Oslo Group members?
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Activities of OG in 2009: focus on IRES
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11 chapters
6 issuepapers
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Issue 12. Issue paper on net or gross calorific value YES
Issue 13. Issue paper on confidentiality YES
Issue 14. Issue paper on prices as part of energy statistics NO
Issue 15. Issue paper on classification by energy purpose NO
Issue 16. Official statistics issue paper on monitoring quality YES
Issue 17. Official statistics issue paper on capacity building NO
Consultation with larger community along the way
– Virtual meetings on http://og.ssb.no
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 September chapters
 November chapters
Expert Group on Energy Balances
– Meeting in Oslo in May 2009
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 Annotated disposition for VM1
 Draft chapter for OG5
Energy Statistics Compilers Manual (ESCM)
– Collection of best practises
– Examples of use of energy statistics
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Oslo Group – main content provider
• All chapters are based on contributions from the members
of the Oslo Group and on other international standards and
manuals
• OG members contributions:
– OG1-OG4:
160 presentations and documents
– IRES Work Plan 2009:
Drafting of 11 chapters and
3 issue papers
Work plan 2009
OG5 Cork
February 2010
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Cooperation with other groups
• InterEnerStat:
– Process of Harmonisation of definitions
– OG focus on the country perspective
– Two documents in 2009
 Definitions of energy product
 Definitions of energy flows
• London Group:
– Invited to provide comments during Virtual Meetings
– IRES complies to the extent possible with the SEEA-E
– SEEA-E accounting standards will be developed on the basis of
IRES
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OG5 – Cork, 1-4 February 2010
• Hosted by CSO Ireland and SEI
• Dedicated to review the draft IRES
and the way forward to finalize IRES
• Set up issues to be addressed in ESCM
• OG6 in Australia (ABS)
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