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UNECE Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Kiev, 2003)
13. Policies and legislation |
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15. Relationship to other international agreements |
Article 14
The Meeting of the Parties to the Convention
serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol
1. The Meeting of the Parties to the Convention
shall serve as the Meeting of the Parties to this
Protocol. The first meeting of the Parties to the
Convention serving as the Meeting of the Parties
to this Protocol shall be convened not later than
one year after the date of entry into force of this
Protocol, and in conjunction with a meeting of the
Parties to the Convention, if a meeting of
the latter is scheduled within that period. Subsequent
meetings of the Parties to the Convention serving
as the Meeting of the Parties to this Protocol shall
be held in conjunction with meetings of the Parties
to the Convention, unless otherwise decided by the
Meeting of the Parties to the Convention serving
as the Meeting of the Parties to this Protocol.
2. Parties to the Convention which are not Parties
to this Protocol may participate as observers in
the proceedings of any session of the Meeting of
the Parties to the Convention serving as the Meeting
of the Parties to this Protocol. When the Meeting
of the Parties to the Convention serves
as the Meeting of the Parties to this Protocol,
decisions under this Protocol shall be taken only
by the Parties to this Protocol.
3. When the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention
serves as the Meeting of the Parties to this Protocol,
any member of the Bureau of the Meeting of the Parties
representing a Party to the Convention that is not,
at that time, a Party to this Protocol shall be
replaced by another member to be elected by and
from amongst the Parties to this Protocol.
4. The Meeting of the Parties to the Convention
serving as the Meeting of the Parties to this Protocol
shall keep under regular review the implementation
of this Protocol and, for this purpose, shall:
(a) Review policies for and methodological approaches
to strategic environmental assessment with a view
to further improving the procedures provided for
under this Protocol;
(b) Exchange information regarding experience gained
in strategic environmental assessment and in the
implementation of this Protocol;
(c) Seek, where appropriate, the services and cooperation
of competent bodies having expertise pertinent to
the achievement of the purposes of this Protocol;
(d) Establish such subsidiary bodies as it considers
necessary for the implementation of this Protocol;
(e) Where necessary, consider and adopt proposals
for amendments to this Protocol; and
(f) Consider and undertake any additional action,
including action to be carried out jointly under
this Protocol and the Convention, that may be required
for the achievement of the purposes of this Protocol.
5. The rules of procedure of the Meeting of the
Parties to the Convention shall be applied mutatis
mutandis under this Protocol, except as may otherwise
be decided by consensus by the Meeting of the Parties
serving as the Meeting of the Parties to this Protocol.
6. At its first meeting, the Meeting of the Parties
to the Convention serving as the Meeting of the
Parties to this Protocol shall consider and adopt
the modalities for applying the procedure for the
review of compliance with the Convention to this
Protocol.
7. Each Party shall, at intervals to be determined
by the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention
serving as the Meeting of the Parties to this Protocol,
report to the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention
serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol
on measures that it has taken to implement the Protocol.