The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to this Protocol shall, at its first session or as soon as practicable thereafter, decide upon modalities, rules and guidelines as to how, and which, additional human-induced activities related to changes in greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks in the agricultural soils and the land-use change and forestry categories shall be added to, or subtracted from, the assigned amounts for Parties included in Annex I, taking into account uncertainties, transparency in reporting, verifiability, the methodological work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the advice provided by the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice in accordance with Article 5 and the decisions of the Conference of the Parties.
Konferenca pogodbenic kot sestanek pogodbenic tega protokola se na svojem prvem zasedanju ali čim prej po njem odloči za načine, pravila in smernice, kako in katere dodatne dejavnosti, ki jih povzroča človek in so povezane s spremembami emisij iz virov in po ponorih odstranjenih toplogrednih plinov v kategorijah kmetijske zemlje, spremembe rabe zemljišč in gozdarstva, se dodajo ali črtajo iz dodeljenih količin za pogodbenice iz Aneksa I ob upoštevanju negotovosti, preglednosti poročanja, preverljivosti, metodološkega dela Medvladnega foruma za spremembo podnebja, nasvetov pomožnega telesa za znanstveno in tehnološko svetovanje v skladu s 5. členom in sklepov Konference pogodbenic.