Note by the Secretariat Paragraph 4 of Article 19 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants includes the provision that “the Conference of the Parties shall by consensus agree upon and adopt at its first meeting … financial rules for itself and any subsidiary bodies, as well as financial provisions governing the functioning of the Secretariat. The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for an International Legally Binding Instrument for Implementing International Action on Certain Persistent Organic Pollutants finalized at its seventh session discussions on the draft