International obligations and transparency

Countries are required to prepare and submit environmental data under international frameworks. These obligations require transparency, consistency over time, and the ability to explain results during reviews. Software systems must support these requirements structurally, not only at reporting time.

Key requirements:

• Long-term data consistency — Data must remain comparable across reporting periods spanning decades.
• Reviewability — External reviewers must be able to trace how results were produced.
• Reproducibility — Calculations and methodological choices must be fully reproducible at any point in time.