واستخدمت معظم الأطراف المصطلحات الواردة في المبادئ التوجيهية لتصنيف نوع أداة السياسة (ضريبية أو تنظيميةالخ)، على الرغم من أن عدداً قليلاً من الأطراف قد خرج عن بعض هذه المصطلحات.
Most of the Parties used the terms given in the guidelines to categorize the type of policy instrument (fiscal, regulation, etc.), although there were a few deviations from thesethis terminology Parties also differed considerabsignificantly in their approach as to which policies and measures to include in the summary table, which should contain all the principal policies, according to the UNFCCC guidelines should contain all the principal policies, and some did not report provide such a table at all.