THE MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION COMPENDIUM
MULTILATERAL / CONSERVATION
Volume(s) 1-3; pages 585-586
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Amendments to the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Regina, 1987
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Done at Regina 3 June 1987
Not in force
Primary source citation: Copy of text provided by the U.S. Department of State
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AMENDMENTS OF THE CONVENTION ADOPTED BY THE EXTRAORDINARY CONFERENCE
Article 6
1. The present text of paragraph 1 shall be replaced by the following wording: ‘There shall be established a Conference of the Contracting Parties to review and promote the implementation of this Convention. The Bureau referred to in Article 8, paragraph 1, shall convene ordinary meetings of the Conference of the Contracting Parties at intervals of not more than three years, unless the Conference decides otherwise, and extraordinary meetings at the written request of at least one third of the Contracting Parties. Each ordinary meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties shall determine the time and venue of the next ordinary meeting.’
2. The introductory phrase of paragraph 2 shall read as follows: ‘The Conference of the Contracting Parties shall be competent:’
3. An additional item shall be included at the end of paragraph 2, as follows: ‘(f) to adopt other recommendations, or resolutions, to promote the functioning of this Convention.’
4. A new paragraph 4 is added which would read as follows: ‘The Conference of the Contracting Parties shall adopt rules of procedure for each of its meetings.’
5. New paragraphs 5 and 6 are added, which would read as follows: Paragraph 5: ‘The Conference of the Contracting Parties shall establish and keep under review the financial regulations of this Convention. At each of its ordinary meetings, it shall adopt the budget for the next financial period by a two-third majority of Contracting Parties present and voting.
Paragraph 6: ‘Each Contracting Party shall contribute to the budget according to a scale of contributions adopted by unanimity of the Contracting Parties present and voting at a meeting of the ordinary Conference of the Contracting Parties.’
Article 7
Paragraph 2 is replaced by the following wording:
‘Each of the Contracting Parties represented at a Conference shall have one vote, recommendations, resolutions and decisions being adopted by a simple majority of the Contracting Parties present and voting, unless otherwise provided for in this Convention.’