Information Required by the Kyoto Protocol

• Under Art. 3, prior to the first session of COP serving as a meeting of the Parties to the Protocol, each Annex I Party shall provide data to establish its carbon stocks in its base year.
• Under Art. 5 each Annex I Party shall have in place, no later than one year prior to the start of the first commitment period, a national system for the estimation of GHG emissions and removals by sinks.
• Under Art. 7 each Annex I Party shall incorporate in its annual inventory of anthropogenic emissions and removals by sinks of GHG, the necessary supplementary information for the purposes of ensuring compliance with targets. Such supplementary information shall be submitted annually, beginning with the first inventory due under the Convention for the first year of the commitment period after the Protocol has entered into force. Countries shall use the guidelines for the preparation of such information adopted by the COP.
• Under Art 8 the information submitted by Annex I countries shall be reviewed by expert review teams as a part of the annual compilation and accounting of emissions inventories and assigned amounts.