Annual report of the Compliance Committee to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.

The ninth annual report of the Compliance Committee to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol covers activities undertaken from 19 September 2013 to 5 September 2014. The report provides a summary of: the continued consideration by the facilitative branch of the potential early warning exercise and the provision of advice and facilitation; the consideration by the enforcement branch of the delay in the submission by a Party included in Annex I of its national inventory report and the effects of a Party’s withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol on its reporting obligations; and the discussions of the plenary of the Compliance Committee on the scope of its next joint workshop with inventory lead reviewers, privileges and immunities for members and alternate members of the Committee, and the implications of decision 1/CMP.8 for the work of the Committee.