# Commission Regulation (EC) No 1737/2006 of 7 November 2006 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 2152/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning monitoring of forests and environmental interactions in the Community, Division: Data quality assessment

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Analytical data quality assessment will be performed upon receipt of data from the Member States, in order to ensure integrity and logical consistency of the database.
In a first stage individual fields will be examined to verify that data domains and validation rules are respected (see table below).
Field name
Data domains and validation rules for individual fields
Codes for missing data
FIREID
No duplicate values accepted (ID must exist and be unique within the country)
Missing data not accepted
DATEAL
Date must exist in the reporting year (e.g. year = reporting year; month domain: 1..12; day domain: depending on month)
99999999
TIMEAL
Domains: Hour (0..23); Minutes (0..59)
9999
DATEIN
Date must exist in the reporting year (e.g. year = reporting year; month domain: 1..12; day domain: depending on month)
99999999
TIMEIN
Domains: Hour (0..23); Minutes (0..59)
9999
DATEEX
Date must exist in the reporting year (e.g. year = reporting year; month domain: 1..12; day domain: depending on month)
99999999
TIMEEX
Domains: Hour (0..23); Minutes (0..59)
9999
NUTS3
NUTS3 code must exist in Appendix I of Regulation EC 1059/2003 (or in GISCO database for new MS)
XX
CODECOM
Commune code must correspond to a code in the list of commune codes provided by the MS
XX
NAMECOM
Commune name must correspond to a name in the list of commune names provided by the MS
XX
TBA
Domain: TBA > 0
-999
FBA
Domain: FBA ≥ 0
-999
NFBA
Domain: NFBA ≥ 0
-999
CAUSE
Domain: CAUSE in (1,2,3,4)
9
In a second stage logical consistency among fields will be checked. To this end a number of rules will be applied to the received data, such as in the following, not exhaustive, examples:
1.. The temporal sequence ‘date/time alarm’ -> ‘date/time intervention’ -> ‘date/time extinction’ should be respected. It can only be accepted in some cases that ‘date/time alarm’ = ‘date/time intervention’ in the event that the first attack follows immediately fire detection (fire detected by a fighting crew), although this situation is not often met.
2.. It shall be verified that ‘Forested burned area’ + ‘Not forested burned area’ = ‘Total burned area’.
3.. The commune indicated in CODECOM and NAMECOM shall belong to the territorial unit indicated in NUTS3.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2006/1737/annex/II/division/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1737/annex-II/division-3
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