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).

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).

Article XI establishes the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM), which acts like a Conference of Parties through representation and regular meetings. The FAO is the host organization for the Commission.

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.

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.