Rules of procedure

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

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).

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).

The draft rules of procedure (linked above) are applied by the COP and its subsidiary bodies with the exception of draft rule 42: "Voting" (see FCCC/CP/1995/7, para. 10), which appears in bold type in the present document.

The financial rules can be found in: Convention, Part XI, Section 4, subsection F (adopted on 10 Dec 1982) AND Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI, Annex, Section 9 (adopted on 28 July 1994)