The Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), at its thirty-ninth session, invited the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to continue to provide information on its activities relating to the preparation of national communications by Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention (non-Annex I Parties), including information on the dates of approval of funding and disbursement of funds, as well as the approximate date of submission of the national communications, for consideration at SBI 41. SBI 40 invited the GEF to continue to provide information on its activities relating to the preparation of biennial update reports by non-Annex I Parties, including information on the dates of requests for funding, approval of funding and disbursement of funds, for consideration at SBI 41. The required information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 above, provided by the GEF, has been reproduced in the annexes I and II respectively, as received from the GEF and without formal editing