Schedule of major forest-related international processes

1. National report includes - but it is not limited to - forests. The first national reports were submitted in 1997; the second reports were submitted by 15 May 2001. The third national reports in 2005 will ask parties, for the first time, questions explicitly derived from the expanded programme of work on forest biological diversity adopted in 2002.
2. Country profiles, providing information related to all chapters of Agenda 21, including chapter 11 (Combating deforestation), were prepared for CSD sessions in 1997 and 2002, five and ten years after UNCED, respectively.
3. National reporting to CSD, carried out annually and addressing progress in implementing certain chapters of Agenda 21, began in 1994. Reports on forests were provided for CSD8 in 2000, including information on implementation of chapter 11 (Combating deforestation) and references to the implementation of IPF/IFF proposals for action.
4. The Global Tables provided for the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2000 represent the questionnaire used in the past.
5. FAO sends the annual Joint Forest Sector Questionnaire (JFSQ), developed and used by FAO/ITTO/UNECE/EUROSTAT, to its national correspondents in March-April. The national correspondents send back the reports by the end of August. FAO publishes data on the web (FAOSTAT) and on the Yearbook of Forest Products every year.
6. ITTO sends the Joint Forest Sector Questionnaire (JFSQ) to its member countries and, based on responses, produces Annual Review, which is published after the International Tropical Timber Council (ITTC) usually by the end of November/December every year. With the JSFQ, the countries provide the information only once but the organizations involved use this information in various ways producing different outcomes.
7. Reporting formats for ITTO Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Management of Natural Tropical Forests (National and FMU levels) were sent - and reports received - for the first time in 2002 - 2004. Update reports are expected commencing in 2006.
8. Reporting to the UNCCD organized into five main categories; African affected country Parties submitted their first and second national reports in 1999 and 2002, respectively; affected country Parties of other regions provided their first and second national reports in 2000 and 2002, respectively; developed country Parties submitted reports in 1999 and/or 2000 and 2002; intergovernmental organizations provided reports in 1999 or 2000 and 2002; United Nations organizations reported in 1999 and/or 2000 and 2002.
9. The main reporting years for Annex I Parties under UNFCCC were 1994 (within six months of the entry into force of the Convention), 1997 and 2001, for the first (initial), second and third communications respectively. The fourth national communication will be provided in 2006. Non Annex I Parties were requested to make their initial communication within three years of the entry into force of the Convention for that Party, or depending by the availability of financial resources. However, least developed countries can make their initial communications at their own discretion. The frequency of future non-Annex I communications will be considered at COP-10 in December 2004.
10. The first national voluntary reports were submitted to UNFF2 (in 2002) and the second national voluntary reports were submitted to UNFF3 (May-June 2003). The reporting frequency is annual until the year 2005.