Annexes I and II to the present document contain the information provided in the letters.

Information received in this regard from non governmental organizations is contained in the present document and its addenda.

If the need arises to update and expand the information contained herein, additional information may be issued.

The comparatives reported in this document have not been re stated.

The present document, which provides updated information on achievements since June 2005, will be further updated in a conference room paper.

That information will be updated in the following document

In addition, updating the calendar based on inputs worldwide resulted in the delayed submission of the present document.

The Conference of the Parties may wish to consider the information in this note and the annex and

The paragraphs cited in the annex of the present document correspond to those contained in document A 59 5 Add.7.

Possible action by the Subsidiary Body for Implementation The SBI may wish to consider the information contained in this document and provide guidance to the secretariat on making subsidiary body and COP sessions climate neutral.

The information contained in this document has been compiled based on the activities and programmes reported by Parties relating to sustainable development and integration of climate change into medium and long term planning.

Reports on the implementation of measures contained in General Conference resolution GC.10 Res.2 on the medium term programme framework, 2004 2007.

Financial information used elsewhere is consistent with that in the financial statements.

Mr. M. Cherif Bassiouni was appointed independent expert by the Secretary General in April 2004.

That information is available in document A CONF.208 2005 2.

Information was not available at the time of preparation of this document.

Financial reports and budgets of the trust funds for the Vienna Convention

ICCD COP(3) 6 Arrangement for the functioning of the permanent secretariat Medium term strategy of the secretariat

The present document has been prepared by the Secretariat on the basis of information received by 17 January 2005 from the following member States of the Committee Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Mexico and Morocco.

This information is duly reflected in document A 60 345.

The submission of this document was delayed in order to include the most recent information possible.

This document is submitted late so as to include the most up to date information possible.

The recommendations contained herein typically apply to both one tier and two tier systems.

1 The information contained in the present working paper was derived from published sources.

Note that the provision numbers in this revised version of A CN.9 WG.III WP.50 have been changed to correspond with those in A CN.9 WG.III WP.56.

The Tribunal took note of the information contained in the document.

This document is submitted after the due date because all the necessary information was not available on time.

The communication from the Permanent Mission of Iraq dated 16 June 2005 is contained in the annex to the present document.

The priority attached to the further development of Galaxy was reiterated in the progress report on the Information and Communications Technology Strategy contained in document A 59 265.

The programme and budgets contained in this document follows the application of principles of results based management (RBM) for the first time in a comprehensive manner.

1 The information contained in the present working paper was derived from published sources, including Internet sites.

(a) Takes note of the information provided in document IDB.30

The new information is included in the document herewith enclosed (see annex), prepared by the competent Italian authorities in response to the questions contained in the matrix of 21 June 2004.

This report complements and updates the information in document TD B EX(35) 2, which was submitted to the thirty fifth executive session of the Board in September 2004.

I have also included a very limited bibliography at the end of this paper, indicating key background materials.

This document is submitted after the due date because all the necessary information was not available on time.

Update of information in matrix

(a) Took note of the information contained in document IDB.30 15

(a) Took note of the information provided in document IDB.30 18

Economic Commission for Africa

(a) Takes note of the information contained in document IDB.30 15

This document has been submitted late in order to include information on the latest progress in this work.

The Committee welcomes the improvements to streamline the presentation through the use of charts and graphs, as well as the provision of annex III, requested by the Committee (paragraph 4, DP FPA 2003 12), which includes action taken to implement the recommendations of the Advisory Committee, as approved by the UNDP UNFPA Executive Board. The Committee encourages continuation of this practice in future submissions.

The views contained in this document do not necessarily reflect those of the organizations with which the members of the ad hoc consultative group are affiliated.

The overall programme expenditure (including funds, 48 million) increased to 2.9 billion, representing a 15 per cent growth from 2.5 million in 2003.