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ARTICLE-2: Use of Terms     [go to this ARTICLE]
... "Regional economic integration organization" means an organization constituted by sovereign States of a given region, to which its member States have transferred competence in respect of matters governed by this Convention and which has been duly authorized, in accordance with its internal procedures, to sign, ratify, accept, approve or accede to it. ...


ARTICLE-14: Impact Assessment and Minimizing Adverse Impacts     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) Introduce appropriate procedures requiring environmental impact assessment of its proposed projects that are likely to have significant adverse effects on biological diversity with a view to avoiding or minimizing such effects and, where appropriate, allow for public participation in such procedures; ...
... (a) Introduce appropriate procedures requiring environmental impact assessment of its proposed projects that are likely to have significant adverse effects on biological diversity with a view to avoiding or minimizing such effects and, where appropriate, allow for public participation in such procedures; ...


ARTICLE-19: Handling of Biotechnology and Distribution of its Benefits     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 3. The Parties shall consider the need for and modalities of a protocol setting out appropriate procedures, including, in particular, advance informed agreement, in the field of the safe transfer, handling and use of any living modified organism resulting from biotechnology that may have adverse effect on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. ...


ARTICLE-23: Conference of the Parties     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 3. The Conference of the Parties shall by consensus agree upon and adopt rules of procedure for itself and for any subsidiary body it may establish, as well as financial rules governing the funding of the Secretariat. At each ordinary meeting, it shall adopt a budget for the financial period until the next ordinary meeting. ...
... 5. The United Nations, its specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency, as well as any State not Party to this Convention, may be represented as observers at meetings of the Conference of the Parties. Any other body or agency, whether governmental or non-governmental, qualified in fields relating to conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, which has informed the Secretariat of its wish to be represented as an observer at a meeting of the Conference of the Parties, may be admitted unless at least one third of the Parties present object. The admission and participation of observers shall be subject to the rules of procedure adopted by the Conference of the Parties. ...


ARTICLE-27: Settlement of Disputes     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) Arbitration in accordance with the procedure laid down in Part 1 of Annex II; ...
... 4. If the parties to the dispute have not, in accordance with paragaph 3 above, accepted the same or any procedure, the dispute shall be submitted to conciliation in accordance with Part 2 of Annex II unless the parties otherwise agree. ...


ARTICLE-30: Adoption and Amendment of Annexes     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 2. Except as may be otherwise provided in any protocol with respect to its annexes, the following procedure shall apply to the proposal, adoption and entry into force of additional annexes to this Convention or of annexes to any protocol: ...
... (a) Annexes to this Convention or to any protocol shall be proposed and adopted according to the procedure laid down in Article 29; ...
... 3. The proposal, adoption and entry into force of amendments to annexes to this Convention or to any protocol shall be subject to the same procedure as for the proposal, adoption and entry into force of annexes to the Convention or annexes to any protocol. ...


ARTICLE-Annex_II-Part_1: Arbitration     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Unless the parties to the dispute otherwise agree, the arbitral tribunal shall determine its own rules of procedure. ...
... Decisions both on procedure and substance of the arbitral tribunal shall be taken by a majority vote of its members. ...
... The award shall be binding on the parties to the dispute. It shall be without appeal unless the parties to the dispute have agreed in advance to an appellate procedure. ...


ARTICLE-Annex_II-Part_2: Conciliation     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The conciliation commission shall take its decisions by majority vote of its members. It shall, unless the parties to the dispute otherwise agree, determine its own procedure. It shall render a proposal for resolution of the dispute, which the parties shall consider in good faith. ...