Online, 6 March 2025
Highlights: The third meeting of the Compliance Committee will continue consideration of a specific submission regarding a Party that had not designated one or more national authorities in accordance with Article 4.
The meeting, which will be conducted entirely online, will start at 12:00 noon and end by 14:00 (Geneva time, UTC+2h).
Pursuant to the terms of reference of the Committee and the rules of procedures of the Conference of the Parties, applicable mutatis mutandis :
- Meetings of the Committee are open to Parties and the public unless the Committee decides otherwise;
- When the Committee is dealing with specific submissions, pursuant to paragraphs 12 or 13 of Annex VII to the Convention, the meetings shall be open to Parties and closed to the public unless the Party whose compliance is in question agrees otherwise. The Parties or observers to whom the meeting is open shall not have a right to participate in the meeting unless the Committee and the Party whose compliance is in question agrees otherwise.
During consideration of this submission at its second meeting, the Party concerned requested that the meeting be closed to Parties as well as to other observers and a similar request may be made at the third meeting.
Organizer: Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention
Working Language: English