Technical Assistance Financing under the Rotterdam Convention Summary of Negotiations

Note by the secretariat

Malaysia is committed to criminalise the financing of terrorism required under the UN Convention for the Suppression of Financing of Terrorism.

Australia ratified the UN International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism in 2002 and has implemented its obligations through the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism Act 2002 (SFT Act).

Consideration of criminalization in the Convention on the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism falls within this context.

Sweden has implemented the UN International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism by the Act on Criminal Responsibility for the Financing of Particularly Serious Crime in some cases, etc. (SFS 2002 444).

The Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism Act 2003 which came in operation on 22 November 2003.

The Convention against Terrorist Bombings and the Convention against the Financing of Terrorism are especially significant instruments.

In UNEP, it is proposed that the co Executive Secretary position should be shared with the Stockholm Convention, so that 25 per cent of the post is funded from the general trust fund established under the Rotterdam Convention while the remaining 75 per cent is funded from the budget of the Stockholm Convention.

This offence which is to be found in the Convention on the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism was considered in order to study how to implement the provisions concerning the criminalization of offences relating to terrorism.

In the counter terrorism instruments, criminalization was of the association type provided for in the Convention on the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism.

It is clear that this issue of funding CCD activities remains an essential precondition, but is not in itself sufficient.

Review of the regulations concerning transfer of funds abroad in the WAEMU area in the context of the Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism.

However, the CTC is also aware that Thailand is in the process of ratifying and implementing the UN Convention against the financing of terrorism (1999).

Further, the Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism Act 2003 which has been enacted to give force of law to the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and to provide for matters ancillary thereto came into force on 22 November 2003.

Portugal ratified, through the Presidential Decree no. 31 2002 of 2 August 2002 the United Nations International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism.

The Convention against the Financing of Terrorism has a unique preventive potential, as it is aimed at punishing financial preparations before they mature into terrorist violence.

Following the usual procedure for consideration of multilateral treaties, the UN Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism Financing was approved by the Lower Chamber of the National Congress on February 2005.

Financing of the appropriation

Subprogramme 10 Financing for development

Financing of experts

Moreover, the two most recent instruments, the Convention against Terrorist Bombings and the Convention against the Financing of Terrorism, achieve an important policy resolution by specifically abolishing the political offence exception with regard to the defined offences.

Of the 13 existing international terrorism conventions, China was a party to 10 and a signatory to 2 it had recently initiated the domestic legal procedure for ratifying the Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism.

1.1 The CTC has noted that Portugal recently ratified the Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and was in the process of enacting implementation measures to comply with Decision 2002 475 JHA of the Council of the European Union.

Despite the absence of a universally agreed to definition of terrorism, some 120 States have ratified the 1999 International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, which identifies the elements of the crime of terrorism with reasonable precision.

Even though a steering committee comprised of representatives of participating countries and the Secretariat of the Basel Convention oversees the overall work of the BCRC, financing of the administration, including personnel, are the responsibility of the host Government.

Unlocking Climate Finance

Financing Climate Safety

Financing human settlements

Financing Renewable Energy

Financing the Green Economy

Financing of the operational budget

Health care funding

Programme funding

Financing of the budget estimates

Terrorist financing

Public administration, finance and development

Combating terrorist financing

Financing of seminars

Financing of experts

Subprogramme 4 Human settlements financing

Our programmes are underfunded.

This would imply the ability to finance an important proportion of unmet needs for infrastructure financing.

Financing the Fight Against Climate Change

Financing of the appropriations for the year 2001