At its twelfth session, the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice invited Parties to submit, by 1 August 2000, comments on issues related to Articles 5, 7 and 8 of the Kyoto Protocol, particularly on guidelines for preparation of the information required under Article 7, guidelines for the review process under Article 8, methodologies for adjustments under Article 5.2, and on some aspects related to modalities for the accounting of assigned amounts contained in document FCCC/SBSTA/2000/INF.7. It requested the secretariat to compile these views into a miscellaneous document (FCCC/SBSTA/2000/5, para. 36 (h)). The secretariat has received 9 such submissions. In accordance with the procedures for miscellaneous documents, these submissions are attached and reproduced in the language in which they were received and without formal editing