The Conference of the Parties (COP), by its decision 22/CP.8, requested the secretariat to develop, by 15 March 2004, a proposal for an electronic reporting format for reporting supplementary information on emission reduction units, certified emission reductions, assigned amount units and removal units, for consideration by the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA). At the same session, the COP invited Parties to submit, by 30 April 2004, their views on the proposal by the secretariat mentioned in the previous paragraph. Because the proposal for an electronic format for reporting of supplementary information should reflect the revisions to guidelines under Articles 7 and 8, the secretariat postponed the development of the proposal pending that work. Following agreement on the guidelines at SBSTA 20, the secretariat prepared the proposal for consideration by the SBSTA at its twenty-first session. Parties were informed by the “Message to Parties” from the secretariat, dated 12 July 2004, that the proposal would be available on the UNFCCC web site in early September and that the deadline for submissions relating to this proposal was 8 October 2004. The secretariat has received three such submissions. 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