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Item 6 of the provisional agenda
Abstract
In its Report on Conference Servicing of the Conference of the Parties and its Subsidiary Bodies, the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) raised the question of the volume of documentation and recommended that, in line with economy measures being taken in the United Nations Secretariat, the Conference of the Parties (COP) should be requested to review the number of documents it produces and the manner in which they are to be produced (A/50/7/Add.15, para. 7).1 The COP addressed this question, at its second session, in July 1996, and endorsed the ACABQs recommendation to limit, to the extent possible, the number and length of the documents produced by the secretariat (decision 17/CP.2, para.2). At its fifth session, held from 25 to 28 February 1997, the Subsidiary Body for
Implementation (SBI) recalled decision 17/CP.2 and noted that the Executive Secretary required more time to prepare recommendations on this matter and would submit them to the SBI at its sixth session (FCCC/SBI/1997/6). The SBI also requested the Executive Secretary to explore with the United Nations office at Geneva (UNOG), the possibility that, when
justified by exceptional circumstances, certain documents may be distributed in each language, as they become available
Meeting
Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), Sixth session, 28 July - 5 August 1997, Bonn, Germany
Keywords
conference papers
documentation
Content
Publication date
05/06/1997