The Conference of the Parties,
decides to adopt the Financial Rules for the Administration of the Trust Fund for the Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians, as contained in Annex II, in the understanding that the budget in the Annex to the Financial Rules can only be filled once the arrangements and location of the Permanent Secretariat have been decided, and that the scale of contributions is decided in the context of the decision COP1/3 on the Programme of work and budget of the Carpathian Convention.