1. The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its thirty-eighth session, invited developing country Parties to submit to the secretariat, by 24 September 2014, their views on experiences and lessons learned from their development of systems for providing information on how all the safeguards referred to in decision 1/CP.16, appendix I, are being addressed and respected and the challenges they face in developing such systems. It requested the secretariat to compile the submissions into a miscellaneous document for consideration at SBSTA 41. 2. The secretariat has received six such submissions. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, these submissions are attached and reproduced* in the languages in which they were received and without formal editing. 3. The SBSTA also invited Parties and admitted observer organizations to submit to the secretariat, by 24 September 2014, their views on the type of information from systems for providing information on how the safeguards referred to in paragraph 1 above are being addressed and respected that would be helpful and that may be provided by developing country Parties. These submissions have been compiled into a separate miscellaneous document