10 October 1997
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UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
SUBSIDIARY BODY FOR IMPLEMENTATION
Seventh session
Bonn, 20 - 29 October 1997
Item 3 (b) of the provisional agenda
COMMUNICATIONS FROM PARTIES NOT INCLUDED
IN ANNEX I TO THE CONVENTION
Views of Parties on a process for considering
non-Annex I communications
Note by the secretariat
1. In accordance with Article 12.5 of the Convention, each Party
not included in Annex I to the Convention shall make its initial
communication within three years of the entry into force of the
Convention for that Party, or of the availability of financial
resources in accordance with Article 4.3. Parties that are least
developed may make their initial communication at their
discretion.
2. At its sixth session, the Subsidiary Body for Implementation
(SBI) took note of the views expressed by Parties on the preparation
and consideration of communications from
non-Annex I Parties ( FCCC/SBI/1997/MISC.5) and of two draft
proposals for a decision by the Conference of the Parties at its
third session (COP 3). The SBI invited Parties to submit further
views on these matters by 8 September 1997. It further
requested the secretariat to compile and make available these views
at the seventh session of the SBI to facilitate consideration of a
draft decision for submission to COP 3 (FCCC/SBI/1997/16, para. 19
and appendices I and II).
3. Two such submissions(1) have
been received. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous
documents, these submission are attached and reproduced in the
language in which they were received and without formal
editing.
FCCC/SBI/1997/MISC.8
GE.97-
CONTENTS
Submission No. Page
Luxembourg (on behalf of the European Community
and its member States) 3
(Submission received 8 September 1997)
EU PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION ON THE PROCESS FOR
CONSIDERATION OF THE INITIAL COMMUNICATIONS
FROM PARTIES NOT INCLUDED IN ANNEX I
Republic of Uzbekistan 5
(Submission received 10 September 1997)
PREPARATION AND CONSIDERATION OF
COMMUNICATION FROM PARTIES NOT INCLUDED
IN ANNEX I
SUBMISSION NO. 1: LUXEMBOURG
(on behalf of the European Community and its member
States)
EU PROPOSAL FOR DECISION ON THE PROCESS FOR
CONSIDERATION OF THE INITIAL COMMUNICATIONS
FROM PARTIES NOT INCLUDED IN ANNEX
I
The Conference of the Parties
Recalling the relevant provisions of the UNFCCC, in
particular Articles 4.1, 7.2, 9.2, 10.2, 12.1, 12.5 and
12.7;
Recalling also its Decisions 4/CP.1, 8/CP.1 and
10/CP.2;
Noting in particular Art. 12.5 which provides that each
developing country Party shall make its initial communication within
three years of entry into force of the Convention for that Party, or
of the availability of financial resources in accordance with Article
4.3 and that Parties that are least developed may make their
submission at their discretion,
Noting the differentiated timetable for the submission of
the initial national communications of Parties not included in Annex
I and, consequently, the need for flexibility in its consideration of
these communications;
1. Decides to establish the following arrangements for the
consideration of the information contained in the initial
communications of non-Annex I Parties.
a. The review should provide a technical assessment of the
implementation of the Convention commitments by individual non-Annex
I Parties. Its purpose is to review, in a facilitative,
non-confrontational, open and transparent manner, the information
contained in the communications from non-Annex I Parties to ensure
that the COP has accurate, consistent and relevant information at its
disposal to assist it in carrying out its responsibilities. The
arrangements shall also enhance the comparability and focus of
non-Annex I Party national communications and assist the
secretariat's determination of the needs of non-Annex I Parties for
the preparation of their national communications in accordance with
Article 8.2(c).
1bis
Decides:
a. That each national communication submitted by a
non-Annex I Party should be subject to an in-depth review within one
year of receipt by the secretariat; such in-depth reviews should be
carried out by expert review teams, under the authority of the
SBI;
b. That the review teams should be coordinated by a
representative of the secretariat and composed of experts from those
nominated by Parties and, as appropriate, by international
organizations;
c. That the review teams should conduct their work through
in-depth assessments, guided by the purpose of the review and if
helpful, visits to clarify the communications, with the prior
approval of the Party concerned, would be helpful;
d. That each review team should produce a report on each
in-depth review, written in an objective manner, and submitted to the
SBI;
e. That the SBI should consider the in-depth review
reports;
f. To make the necessary arrangements to finance the
review process in the budget for the secretariat.
Requests the secretariat to:
i. use the communications it has received to prepare for
consideration by the SBI a compilation and synthesis report; such a
report should be prepared on an annual basis for the consideration of
the Subsidiary Body for Implementation;
ii. also coordinate and facilitate the review process
described above, including the organization of the in-depth reviews
of individual national communications;
iii. select, under the guidance of the Chairs of the
subsidiary bodies, the members of the review teams from names
nominated by Parties to carry out these reviews;
iv. make available, with the permission of the relevant
Party, the national communication and the report of the expert's
review to the Council of the Global Environment Facility with the
request that they make particular note of this information in their
consideration of project proposals form the relevant
Party.
3. Also decides that SBSTA shall, on the basis of the
above synthesis report, further refine the guidelines for the
preparation of the national communications from Parties not included
in Annex I of the Convention.
4. Urges Parties not included in Annex I of the Convention
to submit their national communications at their earliest
convenience.
5. Request non-Annex I Parties to submit to the
secretariat national inventory data on a regular basis.
SUBMISSION NO. 2: UZBEKISTAN
PREPARATION AND CONSIDERATION OF COMMUNICATION
FROM PARTIES NOT INCLUDED IN ANNEX 1.
1.1 The terms determined by Article 12.5 for the
presentation of initial national communications are sufficient for
their preparation provided by the timely financial support for work.
Non-Annex Parties should make their efforts towards the undertaking
of measures for the facilitation of initial communications and
regular of updating of their national communications on voluntary
basis.
1.2 In the course of consideration of communications the
formal expertise and period of preliminary analyses of reports before
their publishing should be envisaged. The deep expertise of reports
with the purpose of identifying of the rational elements of policies
and measures can be made on the basis of results of preliminary
expertise.
1.3 In their national communication the parties should
keep to the enhancement of reliability of social-economical and
ecological data envisaging, in particular, the measures for technical
development and strengthening of the network, of the collection and
accumulation of data on emissions for the climate change prediction
in their national programs.
1.4 The result of the communications analyses can be
constructive recommendations on the further Convention
implementation, the conclusion about the expediency of financial
support and meeting the technological needs.
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1. In order to make these submissions
available on electronic systems, including the World Wide Web, these
contributions have been electronically scanned and/or retyped. The
secretariat has made every effort to ensure the correct reproduction
of the texts as submitted.