1) North Macedonia has been using the IPCC 2006 inventory software to calculate and report its national GHG emissions since 2013 but finds transferring the data to the CRF format very challenging. 2) Previous attempts to use the CRF reporter software found it unfriendly and difficult to use. 3) The extensive and segregated nature of the data in the CRF tables makes the review process difficult without the UNFCCC review tools, and sometimes those tools are unavailable.