At its fifteenth session, the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) requested the secretariat, resources permitting, to organize a workshop to develop a work programme on Article 6 activities with regionally balanced categories of participants. Parties were invited to porvide comments on the draft terms of reference of the proposed workshop to the secretariat by 31 December 2001 (FCCC/SBSTA/2002/8, para.45 (e)). Six such submissions have been received from Parties. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, these submissions are attached and reproduced in the language in which they were received and without formal editing