The Minamata Convention requires, under its article 17, paragraph 4, that each Party designates a National Focal Point for the exchange of information under it, including with regard to the consent of importing Parties under Article 3. Pursuant to Article 21 of the Minamata Convention, each party to the Convention shall report to the COP on the measures it has taken to implement the provisions of the Convention, on the effectiveness of such measures and on possible challenges in meeting the objectives of the Convention. In decision MC-1/8 on the Timing and format of reporting by the Parties, the COP at its first meeting (2017) agreed on the full format of reporting and decided that each Party shall report every four years using the full format and report every two years on four questions marked by an asterisk in the full format. The COP further decided on the following timing with regards to the short and full reporting: 31 December 2019 as the deadline for the first short national report; 31 December 2021 as the deadline for the first full national report.

For the Minamata Convention, the units of measurement are the number of designated national focal points and the number of national reports received. For each Party, a percentage value is assigned to indicate how much of the required information has been submitted.

Minamata Convention: Parties requested the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention to facilitate cooperation in the exchange of information referred to in Article 17, including with respect to the designation of national focal points, pursuant to paragraph 3 of Article 17 of the Minamata Convention. Article 24 of the Convention further includes in the functions of the Secretariat, inter alia, to assist Parties in the exchange of information related to the implementation of the Convention, and to prepare and make to the Parties periodic reports based on information received pursuant to Article 21.

Scoring of the Minamata Convention: 1. Designation of a national focal point (Article 17) (5 points); 2. Submission of national report (Article 21) (15 points).

For the Minamata Convention:
- A list of designated national focal points is available at
https://www.mercuryconvention.org/en/parties/focal-points.
- National reports submitted by the Parties to the Minamata Convention for the first reporting cycle are available at https://www.mercuryconvention.org/en/parties/reporting/2019