1. Each Party included in Annex I shall incorporate in its annual inventory
of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases
not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, submitted in accordance with the
relevant decisions of the Conference of the Parties, the necessary
supplementary information for the purposes of ensuring compliance with Article
3, to be determined in accordance with paragraph 4 below.
2. Each Party included in Annex I shall incorporate in its national
communication, submitted under Article 12 of the Convention, the supplementary
information necessary to demonstrate compliance with its commitments under this
Protocol, to be determined in accordance with paragraph 4 below.
3. Each Party included in Annex I shall submit the information required
under paragraph 1 above annually, beginning with the first inventory due under
the Convention for the first year of the commitment period after this Protocol
has entered into force for it. Each such Party shall submit the information
required under paragraph 2 above as part of the first national communication
due under the Convention after this Protocol has entered into force for it and
after the adoption of guidelines as provided for in paragraph 4 below. The
frequency of subsequent submission of information required under this Article
shall be determined by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of
the Parties to this Protocol, taking into account any timetable for the
submission of national communications decided upon by the Conference of the
Parties.
4. The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to this Protocol shall adopt at its first session, and review periodically thereafter, guidelines for the preparation of the information required under this Article, taking into account guidelines for the preparation of national communications by Parties included in Annex I adopted by the Conference of the Parties. The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to this Protocol shall also, prior to the first commitment period, decide upon modalities for the accounting of assigned amounts.