Info Report Check
Submission incomplete:
1: Scope: The monitoring report does not contain information on calibration of monitoring instruments (frequency, relevant dates of calibration and/or validity) as specified by the monitoring methodology and the monitoring plan. (EB48 - Annex 68 paragraph 10 (a) (iv) & EB 54 Annex 34)
Issue: The Monitoring Report only provided the calibration dates of the weighing scales without explaining whether the calibration frequency is in accordance with the requirements from paragraph 8 from EB52/Annex 60. Additionally, the response of CAR 4 in the Verification Report states that "in order to be conservative the correction has been done in both directions (adding and substracting the error of the balances) for project emissions and baseline respectively assuring a conservative approach" and the response from CAR 5 states that “The result of one calibration (even that there was no delay in the calibration) shows that the balance has been adjusted, hence this adjustment has been included in the calculations in a conservative way”, but these explanations were not provided in the Monitoring Report.

2: Scope: The spreadsheet does not contain explanation with regard to application of formulae in the spreadsheet. (EB48 - Annex 68 paragraph 10 (b) (iii)).
Issue: It can be identified some blue highlighted cells on the sheet "AFT 2008" (columns K-L and S-U), but no explanations were provided on the reasons for "Corrected Plus" and "Corrected Minus" and why the values were added/discounted by 1. The PP may also whish to include the units of the parameters described on row 14 in the "Calculation" sheet.

3: Scope: The verification report does not provide an assessment of the compliance with EB 52 Annex 60 'Guidelines for assessing compliance with the calibration frequency requirements' for the calibration delay. (VVM v.1.2 para 184 (a) (ii) & EB 52 Annex 60)
Issue: The DOE raised CAR 3 and CAR 5, requesting the PP include the calibration frequency according with the manufacturer or national/international requirements and to correct the weights cells due to adjustments done during the calibration and due to delays during calibrations. CAR 3 was addressed by the PP, informing that the calibration frequency is every 6-months (at the project site) and every year (national regulations), however the weigh scale used for animals exiting the farm (SN B 8917890) was calibrated on May/2008 and October/2009 as reported in the Monitoring Report. If the calibration frequency of this scale is found to be delayed, guidance from EB52 - Annex 60 must be applied.