14- اعتمدت الهيئة الفرعية للمشورة العلمية والتكنولوجية في جلستها السادسة التي عُقدت في 29 تشرين الأول/أكتوبر الاستنتاجات التالية، بعد أن نظرت في اقتراح مقدم من الرئيس:
At its 6th meeting, on 29 October, having considered a proposal by the Chair, the SBSTA adopted the following conclusions: The SBSTA took note of information provided in document FCCC/SBSTA/2002/INF.12 on methodological work under the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol; The SBSTA noted that numerous activities relating to the development of guidelines for reporting information, including national communications, and to the dissemination of information on methods, guidelines, modalities and rules, have been initiated and implemented under the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol; The SBSTA concluded that the future implementation of the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol, and the future elaboration of the climate change process in pursuing the ultimate objective of the Convention, taking into account principles and relevant provisions of the Convention, would benefit from further consideration of ongoing methodological work and from the development of a strategic approach to future methodological work; The SBSTA invited Parties to submit, by 1 March 2003, their initial views on needs for specific methodological activities and on a strategic approach to future methodological work, for example, what methodological work should be done, how should it be done, who should undertake the work and what are the priorities.