Note by the Secretariat Paragraph 1 of Article 15 of the Stockholm Convention requires each Party to report to the Conference of the Parties on the measures it has taken to implement the provisions of the Convention and on the effectiveness of such measures in meeting the objectives of the Convention. Paragraph 2 of the Article sets forth the information to be reported, and paragraph 3 stipulates that reporting must be carried out at periodic intervals and in a format to be decided by the Conference of the Parties at its first meeting At its first meeting, the Conference of the Parties, in its