Application of the memorandum of understanding between the Conference of the Parties and the Council of the Global Environment Facility

Note by the Secretary General transmitting a report by the World Tourism Organization on the implementation of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (A 60 167)

Memorandum of understanding. With the aim of further enhancing cooperation between the United Nations and WCO, the signing of a memorandum of understanding was suggested in the previous report of the Monitoring Group.

Nigeria called on the Global Environment Facility and the Parties to the Convention to conclude their memorandum of understanding as soon as possible.

(m) Further development and finalization, in consultation with the secretariat of GEF, of a draft memorandum of understanding between the Conference of the Parties of the Stockholm Convention and the GEF Council

Administration The GEF Secretariat prepared a draft Memorandum of Understanding (draft MOU) between the GEF and the COP that presented the respective responsibilities of the GEF and COP in the operation of the Stockholm financial mechanism.

Each technical note describes the measure in the WTO context and provides information on costs, benefits and implementation issues.

Following the Secretariat's draft MOU, the GEF issued its draft operational program on POPs.

Arrangements with the Conventions Paragraph 6 of the GEF Instrument commits the GEF to operate the financial mechanisms of the Climate, Biological Diversity, and Stockholm Conventions on an interim basis, and to continue to serve if requested to do so by the respective Conferences of the Parties.

The Executive Board had before it a note by the secretariat (E ICEF 2005 9) and a document that had been submitted to the fifty eighth World Health Assembly (WHO document A58 12).

The GEF is now also a financial mechanism of the Desertification Convention.

the Global Environment Facility

(d) Note by the Secretary General transmitting the report on post tsunami actions undertaken by the World Tourism Organization (E 2005 48).

Following the entry into the force of the Convention, the MOU between the COP and the Council of the GEF was agreed by the GEF Council in July 1995 and by the COP at its second session (July 1996).

Item 6 (d) of the provisional agenda

Explanatory note

Rome, 27 30 September 2005

Note by the secretariat

Item 8 of the provisional agenda

Draft global plan of action

Geneva, 6 10 November 2006

Note by the sSecretariat

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Listing of chemicals in Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention

First meeting

Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Deplete the Ozone Layer

Geneva, 4 8 July 2005

Development of a Strategic Approach

Rotterdam Convention on the Prior

The guidance to the operating entity provided under the Climate Convention (including the Memorandum of Understanding between the COP and the GEF) also applies to the Protocol.

Decides to apply, mutatis mutandis, the memorandum of understanding between the Conference of the Parties and the Council of the Global Environment Facility contained in the annex to decision 12 CP.2 Decides to transmit this decision to the Council of the Global Environment Facility Invites the Council of the Global Environment Facility to consider this decision and convey its response to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.

See paragraph 14 and 15 of the draft memorandum of understanding between the Council of the Global Environment Facility and Conference of the Parties of the Stockholm Convention (UNEP POPS COP.1 19).

Draft Memorandum of Understanding Between the Council of the Global Environment Facility and the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, UNEP POPS INC.7 16 (2003).

Note by the Secretariat

affected country Parties in implementation of the Convention

Memorandum of understanding

Note by the Administrator

Open ended Working Group of the Parties to

Original English

The informal drafting group presented the redrafted provisions to the Working Group (A CN.9 572, paras.

Requests the Executive Secretary of the UNCCD and the CEO Chairman of the GEF in his capacity as CEO Chairman of a financial mechanism of the Convention to report to the Conference of the Parties at its eighth session on the implementation of the present decision.

Item 8 of the provisional agenda

Nairobi, 4 8 April 2005

Note by the Secretariat