The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its seventeenth session, noted that numerous activities relating to the development of guidelines for reporting information, including national communications, and to the dissemination of information on methods, guidelines, modalities and rules, have been initiated and implemented under the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol. The SBSTA concluded that future implementation of the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol would benefit from further consideration of ongoing methodological work and from the development of a strategic approach to future methodological work (FCCC/SBSTA/2002/13, para. 14). The SBSTA invited Parties to submit, by 1 March 2003, their initial views on needs for specific methodological activities and on a strategic approach to future methodological work, for example, on what methodological work should be done, on how it should be done, on who should undertake the work and on what the priorities are. The secretariat has received nine submissions from Parties. 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