Monday 5 February

0930-1000: Session 1: Registration

1000-1040: Session 1: Inauguration

a) Welcome Address by Secretary to the Government of India (10 minutes)
b) Opening address from the Chair of the Oslo Group: Olav Ljones, Chair of the Oslo Group, Deputy Director General, Statistics Norway (10 minutes)
c) Inauguration by Mr. G.K. Vasan – Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, India
d) Vote of thanks by Director General, CSO, India (5 minutes)

1040-1100: Tea/Coffee break

1100-1330: Session 2: Updating of UNSD handbooks and manuals on energy statistics

Chair: Olav Ljones

a) Overview of the existing handbooks of the UN; Energy Statistics: Definitions, Units of Measure and Conversion Factors (UNSD); Concepts and Methods in Energy Statistics, with Special Reference to Energy Accounts and Balances - A technical Report (UNSD); Energy Statistics - Manual for Developing Countries (UNSD) by Karoly Kovacs, Chief, Energy Statistics Section, United Nations Statistical Division
Presentation
b) Challenges with revision of the UN manuals on energy statistics - proposal for the disposition of the new manuals by Atle Tostensen, Secretariat leader for the Oslo Group, Statistics Norway
Presentation
Paper
c) The needs and possibilities for improving the Energy Balance system by Ann Christin Bøeng, Senior Adviser, Statistics Norway
Presentation
Report
d) The IEA Report Card: An effective way of highlighting energy quality issues by Karen Treanton, Head of Energy Balances, Prices and Emissions Section, International Energy Agency
Presentation
e) Irelands Energy Balance System - recent changes in construction and presentation by Martin Howley, Manager Energy Policy Statistics Support Unit, Sustainable Energy Ireland
Presentation
Energy Balance 2005
2005 Balance (expanded)
f) Towards one worldwide energy database, based on national "official" energy statistics? Viewpoint from an individual country involved in energy data collection by several international organisations by Hans Pouwelse, senior researcher, Statistics Netherlands
Presentation
g) Discussion

1330-1415: Lunch - hosted by CSO

1415-1630: Session 3: Cooperations and relations between the work of the Oslo group on energy statistics and other manuals/handbooks on energy statistics

a) Lessons from the IEA/Eurostat/OECD Energy Statistics Manual. A need for more? by Jean-Yves Garnier, Head of Energy Statistics Division, International Energy Agency
Presentation
b)The role of the IEA/Eurostat/OECD Energy Statistics Manual in the work of the Oslo Group, as seen by UNSD by Karoly Kovacs, Chief, Energy Statistics Section, United Nations Statistical Division
Presentation
c) Coordination with the UNCEEA (UN committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting) on the role of the Oslo Group on energy statistics in the revision of the SEEA (System of Environmental-Economic Accounting) by Olav Ljones, Chair of the Oslo Group, Deputy Director General, Statistics Norway
Presentation
Letter from Walter Rademacher, UNCEEA
Minutes from the meeting of the UNCEEA in june 2006
d) A quick update on InterEnerStat with focus on the InterEnerStat web site by Jean-Yves Garnier, Head of Energy Statistics Division, International Energy Agency Presentation
e) Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting by Tomas Olsen, Head of Section, Statistics Denmark
Presentation
Report
f) Discussion

1630-1645: Tea/Coffee-break

1645-1730: Session 4: Best Practice

Chair: Aneme Malan

a) From Energy Questionnaire to Energy Accounts and Balances... and back by Dr. Andrii Gritsevskyi, Energy System Analyst, International Atomic Energy Agency
Presentation
b) Monitoring of Energy Efficiency in Poland by Szymon Peryt, Central Statistical Office of Poland
Presentation

2000: Dinner Hosted by Hon’ able Minister of State for Statistics & Program Implementation, Government of India

Tuesday 6 February

0900-1000: Session 4: Best practice (continued)

c) Official Statistics in Sweden and the project eNyckeln by Anders Jönsson, Swedish Energy Agency
Presentation
d) Official Energy Statistics in Sweden by Mats Rönnbacka, Statistics Sweden
Presentation
e) Data Quality Assurance Activities by Survey Phase by Justin Lacroix, Assistant Director, Manufacturing, Construction and Energy Division, Statistics Canada
Presentation

1000-1300: Session 5: Define scopes of official energy statistics

Chair: Wolfgang Bittermann

a) Principles for Official Statistics - the importance of Official Energy Statistics by Olav Ljones, Chair of the Oslo Group, Deputy Director General, Statistics Norway
Presentation
b) Goal and design of the survey on Official Statistics in energy statistics by Karoly Kovacs, Chief, Energy Statistics Section, United Nations Statistical Division
Presentation
c) Discussion: The survey

1115-1130: Tea/Coffee-break

d) IMF Data Quality Assessment Framework by Maria Mancheva, Senior Economist, Real Sector Division, Statistics Department, International Monetary Fund
Presentation
e) The challenge of reform - energy statistics in Australia by Kai Wallenius, Australian Bureau of Statistics
Presentation
f) Official Statistics from a non-National Statistical Institute angle by Iain MacLeay, UK Department of Trade and Industry
Presentation
g) Discussion

1300-1345: Lunch hosted by CSO

1345-1430: Session 6: Presentation of India's energy statistics

Chair: Karoly Kovacs

Topics from the host of the meeting (30 minutes)

1430-1730: Sightseeing in Delhi

Wednesday 7 February

0900-1035: Session 4: Best practice (continued from Tuesday)

f) Some coordination experiences for the generation of information on energy sector in Mexico by Carlos Roberto López Pérez, Director of Natural Resources and Environmental Statistics, Mexican National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics
Presentation
Report
g) Survey on energy consumption in households by Ann Christin Bøeng, Senior Adviser, Statistics Norway
Presentation
h) Some problems of energy statistics in the Russian Federation by Igor Uliyanov, Deputy Head, Rosstat
Presentation
i) Discussion - How can best practices as these be utilized in the manuals?

1035-1250: Session 7: Links/bridges to international standard concepts and classifications in economic/environmental statistics

Chair: Johannes Willem Pouwelse

a) Energy statistics and the National Accounts: Requirements for and some uses of coordinated environmental and economic data sets by Julie Hass, Researcher, Statistics Norway
Presentation
Report
b) Austrian efforts to establish bridge tables between Energy Balances and I/O tables of National Accounts by Wolfgang Bittermann, Head of energy statistics, Statistics Austria
Presentation

1115-1130: Tea/Coffee-break

c) Energy Statistics, International Merchandize Trade Statistics, and National Accounts Statistics by Maria Mancheva, Senior Economist, Real Sector Division, Statistics Department, International Monetary Fund
Presentation
d) Requirements for Energy Statistics as Basis for Environmental Statistics - With focus on the Norwegian Emission Inventory by Svein Erik Stave, Statistical Adviser, Statistics Norway
Presentation
Report
e) Discussion

1250-1330: Lunch hosted by CSO

1330-1600: Session 8: Summary and the way forward - How to work in the Oslo group

Chair: Karoly Kovacs

a) Presentation of the Oslo Group Discussion Forum by Atle Tostensen, Secretariat leader for the Oslo Group, Statistics Norway
Presentation
b) Summary of the meeting, and the future work program of the Oslo Group by Karoly Kovacs and Olav Ljones
c) Discussion

Thursday 8 February

One-day-trip to TAJMAHAL