Rules of procedure for meetings of
the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties
to the Protocol
The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the
Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety,
Noting that, according to Article 29, paragraph 5, of
the Protocol, the rules of procedure of the Conference of the
Parties to the Convention shall be applied,
mutatis mutandis, under the Protocol, except as may be
otherwise decided by consensus by the Conference of the Parties
serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol,
Recognizing that, when the
rules of procedure of the Conference of
the Parties to the Convention are
appliedmutatis mutandis under the
Protocol, Articles 29, 30 and 31 of the Protocol, in particular,
will affect the application of the rules of procedure to the
Conference of the Parties serving as meeting of the Parties to the
Protocol,
Decides by consensus that:
- When rule 21 of the rules of the procedure for meetings of the
Conference of the Parties to the Convention is applied to the
Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to
the Protocol, this rule shall be supplemented by the following
paragraph:
"Where a member of the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties
to the Convention representing a Party to the Convention but, at
that time, not a Party to the Protocol, is substituted by a member
elected by and from among the Parties to the Protocol, the term of
office of the substitute member shall expire at the same time as
the term of office of the member of the Bureau he or she
substitutes."
- When the rules of procedure of the Conference of the Parties of
the Convention are amended by the Conference of the Parties to the
Convention, those amendments shall not apply to the Conference of
the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol,
unless otherwise decided by the Conference of the Parties serving
as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol.
