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FINANCIAL RULES GOVERNING THE FUNDING OF THE SECRETARIAT OF THE CONVENTION:
The Contact Group developed an un-bracketed draft
text on the funding of the secretariat, which was adopted without
amendment. The Group was unable to produce a budget given that
several issues regarding the secretariat were still under
discussion. Such issues include the location of the secretariat,
institutional arrangements and the functions and tasks to be
provided. Instead, the document identifies indicative budget
components that should be used to guide the secretariat in
developing a draft budget. These components include personnel,
meetings, travel, premises, equipment, etc. The draft also
recommends that the Interim Secretariat prepare: a detailed draft
budget, based on the functions and tasks likely to be assigned to
it by the COP, and a list of expected income sources. In order to
give Parties to the Convention an indication of the relative size
of their expected contributions, the Interim Secretariat was asked
to draw up alternative scales of assessments for those Parties
based on the still bracketed alternative scales in paragraph 4 of
the draft financial rules. The budget and potential contributions
should then be distributed to the Parties before the next COP.