The SBSTA made progress in its consideration of definitions and modalities for including afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism (CDM) in the first commitment period. It considered the consolidated text contained in document FCCC/SBSTA/2003/4 and prepared a negotiating text contained in the annex below. The SBSTA requested the secretariat to organize, subject to the availability of supplementary funding, pre-sessional consultations to give further consideration to issues contained in the draft negotiating text. The SBSTA agreed to continue its work, on the basis of the negotiating text contained in the annex below, at its nineteenth session, in accordance with the agenda for work agreed at its sixteenth session