The Conference of the Parties (COP), by its decision 19/CP.9, adopted modalities and procedures for afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism (CDM) in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. It requested the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) to recommend a draft decision on simplified modalities and procedures for small-scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM and on measures to facilitate these project activities, for adoption by the COP at its tenth session. The COP invited Parties
and accredited observers to submit to the secretariat, by 28 February 2004, their views on simplified modalities and procedures for small-scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM. The secretariat has received 11 such submissions from Parties. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, these submissions are reproduced in the language in which they were received and without formal editing. The secretariat has also received two submissions from intergovernmental organizations and one from a non-governmental organization. It is the practice of the secretariat not to reproduce submissions from organizations in miscellaneous documents. These submissions can be found in document FCCC/WEB/2004/2, available on the UNFCCC web site at