Rules of procedure

Financial Rules published individually for each COP. Latest is Resolution XIV.1, adopted at 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in Wuhan, China, and Geneva, Switzerland 5-13 November 2022.

Resolution 13.2, adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its 13th Meeting (Gandhinagar, 15-22 February 2020) (UNEP/CMS/Resolution 13.2).

The CITES Trust Fund is operated pursuant to the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations linked above (as amended/supplemented in 2013, 2015 and 2019) and finances the administrative costs of the Secretariat, the COP and its subsidiary bodies

Rule 31 of the UNEA Rules of Procedure (embodying amendments and additions adopted by the Environment Assembly and previously the Governing Council up to May 2016) sets out UNEA's relationship to UN Financial Regulations and General Assembly resolution 2997 (XXVII).

Resolution III/I, adopted at the third session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM3). The new version of SAICM texts, which includes the resolutions adopted by ICCM at its first, second and third sessions, exists in English only.

Applicable mutatis mutandis to the Trust Funds of the Biosafety Protocol (BG), the Special Voluntary Trust Fund under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (BH) and for Facilitating Participation of Developing Country Parties to Cartagena Protocol Process (BI).