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Standard electronic format for reporting of information on Kyoto Protocol units

I. General reporting instructions

1. The standard electronic format (SEF) is an essential part of submission under Article 7.1 of the

Kyoto Protocol. It is designed to facilitate reporting of Kyoto Protocol units by Parties included in

Annex I to the Convention (Annex I Parties) and review of Kyoto Protocol units.

2. Each Annex I Party shall annually report the SEF to the secretariat electronically. Any related

information of a non-quantitative character shall be submitted separately. Unless otherwise indicated,

Parties shall submit information for the previous calendar year (based on Universal Time). This is

referred to as the ‘reported year’ (for example, in the 2010 SEF submission, the ‘reported year’ will be

the 2009 calendar year).

3. For each commitment period, each Annex I Party shall submit the SEF in the year following the

calendar year in which the Party first transferred or acquired Kyoto Protocol units. The first calendar

year for which a Party reports this information shall in addition include any CERs that were forwarded

by the clean development mechanism (CDM) registry to the registry accounts of project participants and

Parties involved, under the prompt start of the CDM. Each Annex I Party shall submit the SEF annually

thereafter until the expiration of the additional period for fulfilment of commitments for that commitment

period.2

4. If an Annex I Party is undertaking transactions for two or more commitment periods

simultaneously, then the Party shall provide a separate, complete report for each commitment period.

Each report shall contain information only on those Kyoto Protocol units valid for that commitment

period.3

5. The SEF consists of six tables. All values shall be recorded in the tables as positive, whole units.

Negative values shall not be entered.

6. In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Kyoto Protocol, not all unit types are relevant

for each account or transaction type. Where a cell is shaded in a table, the information or transaction

does not apply for that particular unit type.

7. All tables shall be filled in completely. If no units of a particular type occurred for a transaction

in the previous year, the Party shall enter NO in the cell for ‘not occurring’.

8. In the interest of readability, descriptive titles are used in the SEF to refer to specific account and

transaction types.

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