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FCCC/AGBM/1996/4
[located on Vol. 1]
Title
Possible features of a protocol or another legal instrument. Institutional issues. Note by the secretariat.
Full text (PDF)
Full text of this documents is located on Volume 1, 1991-1996
Notes
Item 6 of the provisional agenda
Abstract
At its second session, the Ad Hoc Group on the Berlin Mandate (AGBM) requested the secretariat "to examine how institutions and processes established by the Convention could be linked to a future protocol or another legal instrument ... ". In its preliminary discussion of this matter, the AGBM identified a number of issues that may need to be taken into consideration, including institutional linkages between the Convention and a protocol or another legal instrument; the role of the secretariat; reviews of commitments of Annex I Parties, reporting and review mechanisms; subsidiary bodies; the use of annexes, and the need to avoid duplication and overlap (FCCC/AGBM/1995/7, para. 49). Also at its second session, the AGBM requested a more detailed report on these issues, including a review of existing relevant conventions, for its consideration at its fourth session (FCCC/AGBM/1995/7, para. 52). Pursuant to the above mandate, this first note gives a preliminary overview of some of the general institutional issues and questions arising from the possible adoption of either a
protocol or an amendment to the Convention.1 The annex to this note lists some of the procedural distinctions between a protocol and an amendment. The note does not address instruments of a quasi-legal, or `soft law,' nature that could be considered for adoption by the COP, for example, decisions, resolutions and declarations, and guidelines; nor does it address the option of a completely separate legal instrument
Meeting
Ad Hoc Group on the Berlin Mandate (AGBM), Third session, 5-8 March 1996, Geneva, Switzerland
Keywords
conference papers
Content
Publication date
13/02/1996
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