The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its twenty-second session, welcomed a report on progress made towards implementing the initial ocean climate observing system and the final report on the analysis of data exchange in global atmospheric and hydrological networks provided by the Global Climate Observing System secretariat in consultation with the World Meteorological Organization. The SBSTA invited Parties to submit to the secretariat, by 15 September 2005, their views on these reports, and requested the secretariat to compile these submissions into a miscellaneous document (FCCC/SBSTA/2005/4, paras. 100–102). 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