Article 7
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.