At their eighth sessions, the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) "invited Parties to submit views on the mechanisms referred to in decision 1/CP.3, paragraph 5 (b), (c) and (e)" (see FCCC/SBSTA/1998/6, para. 63 (e) and FCCC/SBI/1998/6, para. 49 (e)). Some Parties also submitted views on the pilot phase of activities implemented jointly. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, the submissions received are attached and are reproduced in the language in which they were received and without formal editing. Further submissions have been received and issued in addenda to this document, and made available at the fourth Conference of the Parties