The substance of draft article 8 was approved and the text was referred to the drafting group.

Draft agreed articles as approved by the Committee of the Whole

The substance of draft article 17 was adopted and the text was referred to the drafting group.

The Commission approved the substance of draft paragraph 2 and referred the text to the drafting group.

The Commission approved the substance of draft article 15 and referred the text to the drafting group.

The substance of draft article 7, as amended, was approved and the text was referred to the drafting group.

The substance of draft paragraph 1 was approved and the text was referred to the drafting group.

The substance of draft paragraph 2 was approved and the text was referred to the drafting group.

The Commission approved the substance of draft article 2 and referred the text to the drafting group.

The Commission approved the substance of draft article 3 and referred the text to the drafting group.

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The substance of draft article 6, as amended, was approved and the text was referred to the drafting group.

The substance of draft article 9 was approved and the text was referred to the drafting group.

The substance of draft paragraph 1 was approved and the text was referred to the drafting group.

The substance of draft article 16 was approved and the text was referred to the drafting group.

The substance of draft article 18, as amended, was approved and the text was referred to the drafting group.

The substance of draft article 16 bis, as amended. was approved and the text was referred to the drafting group.

He suggested that the Commission should suspend consideration of draft paragraph 5 until the drafting group's suggestions became available.

The draft decision guidance document on chrysotile asbestos was amended by the Co Chairs of the drafting group in the light of the comments received.

The precise wording of such an amendment could be left to the drafting group.

The text of the draft decision guidance document on chrysotile asbestos as submitted to the Secretariat by the drafting group is annexed to the present note.

The Chairman said he took it that the Commission accepted the wording of draft paragraph 3 proposed by the ad hoc drafting group.

A status report on the work of the drafting group, including a compilation of the comments and the amended draft decision guidance document, were circulated to drafting group members on 14 October 2005.

(5) The drafting group will incorporate, as appropriate, comments from the members of the Chemical Review Committee and take note of the comments made by observers of the Chemical Review Committee on the internal proposal and prepare a draft decision guidance document.

(5) The drafting group will incorporate comments as appropriate from the members of the Chemical Review Committee and take note of the comments made by observers of the Chemical Review Committee on the internal proposal and prepare a draft decision guidance document.

That proposal and the draft working paper were circulated to members of the drafting group for comment on 15 April 2005.

The purpose of the broad formulation of draft article 18, paragraph 2, had been to exclude matters that would otherwise have created difficulties.

The drafting group prepares an internal proposal and circulates it within the drafting group for comments.

The drafting group prepares an internal proposal and circulates it within the group for comment.

The Chairman said he took it that the Commission wished to approve the substance of draft paragraph 4, as amended, and of draft paragraph 5 and to refer the text to the drafting group.

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(5) The drafting group would incorporate comments from the Chemical Review Committee and its observers on the internal proposal and prepare a draft decision guidance document.

(5) The drafting group would incorporate comments from the Chemical Review Committee and its observers on the internal proposal and prepare a draft decision guidance document.

Following the decision of the Chemical Review Committee at its first meeting to prepare a decision guidance document for chrysotile asbestos, the secretariat has facilitated the work of the drafting group by circulating the draft internal proposal for review, initially by drafting group members.

Mr. Burman (United States of America) said that the ad hoc drafting group had agreed on the following compromise wording for paragraph 4 of draft paragraph 16 bis

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Attention must be paid to the effect of the actual wording of the Commentary if the wording is drastic, local courts might ignore the changes.

The Chairman drew attention to the three variants of paragraph 5 of draft article 6 contained in the report of the drafting group (A CN.9 XXXVIII CRP.2).

Draft articles 8 and 16 were referred to the Drafting Committee at the 2844th meeting on 25 May 2005 following the report of the Working Group.

Based on these discussions, the informal drafting group proposed to the Working Group during its fourteenth session a series of new provisions regarding the scope of application of the draft instrument. These new provisions are reproduced as they appeared in para.

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The broad formulation of the chapeau of draft article 2, paragraph 1, was one of the reasons why the Working Group had decided to remove some of the earlier explicit exclusions.

Proposed draft article 88a (1) would be retained in the text of the draft instrument as a basis for continuation of the discussion at a future session, subject to possible drafting adjustments in light of the above discussion.

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