The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, at its nineteenth session, invited Parties to submit to the secretariat, by 30 July 2004, their views on a possible data interface and other issues raised in document FCCC/SBSTA/2003/INF.9 (see FCCC/SBSTA/2003/15, para. 14 (e)). The secretariat has received seven such submissions. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, these submissions are reproduced in the language in which they were received and without formal editing