Rules of procedure

The Committee is responsible for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention. The Committee is elected by the General Assembly of States Parties to the Convention which also determines financial contributions (see its Rules linked below).

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.

Article 25 paragraph 2 of the Nagoya Protocol, adopted by the 10th meeting of the COP on 29 October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan, designated the financial mechanism of the Convention (on Biological Diversity) as the financial mechanism for the Protocol.

The Rules of Procedure (see Annex 1, p.106) apply to any session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management convened pursuant to section VII of the Overarching Policy Strategy of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management.

Part IV of the Convention, adopted by the UNESCO General Conference at its seventeenth session Paris, 16 November 1972, provides for the creation of a Fund for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.