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Nineteenth Meeting of the Plenary of the Compliance Committee

 - Nineteenth meeting of the plenary of the Compliance Committee (7 and 8 September)
 - Twentieth meeting of the facilitative branch (7 September)
 - Thirtieth meeting of the enforcement branch (6 and 7 September)

Venue:
UN-Campus 
Platz der Vereinten Nationen 1
53113 Bonn,
Germany
Directions to the UN Campus

Observer registration deadline: 30 August 2017
Webcast (available as of the first day of the meeting)

Documents under consideration at the meeting:

Please refer to the documents listed under
• the plenary page of the UNFCCC website (under nineteenth meeting)
• the facilitative branch page of the UNFCCC website (under twentieth meeting)
• the enforcement branch page of the UNFCCC website (under thirtieth meeting)

Accessibility to observers:

According to rule 9 of the Rules of Procedure (143 kB) of the Compliance Committee of the Kyoto Protocol “meetings of the plenary and the branches shall be held in public, unless the plenary or branch of its own accord or at the request of the Party concerned decides, for overriding reasons, that part or all of the meeting shall be held in private” and that “only members and alternate members of the Committee and secretariat officials may be present during the elaboration and adoption of a decision of a branch.”

At its fourth meeting, the plenary of the Committee agreed (Report on the 4th meeting) to accommodate a limited number of observers in the room where the meeting of the plenary or the branches is being held and, in the event of space constraints, in an adjacent room that will have a live video feed of the parts of the meeting that are held in public.

Interested observers are asked to register using the forms provided. The registration forms for observers nominated by UNFCCC accredited organizations and other observers should be sent to the attention of Ms. Doo Ri Lichtenberger through following e-mail address: compliance.committee@unfccc.int or fax number: ++ 49 228 815 1999. Lists of UNFCCC accredited organizations are available on the UNFCCC website.

The deadline for registration as an observer is 30 August 2017, 5:00 p.m., Central European Time. Please note that only observers who register within the stipulated deadline will be allowed to have access to the venue. Observers are kindly asked to refer to the Guidelines for the participation of observers at meetings of the plenary and the branches of the Compliance Committee of the Kyoto Protocol.

In addition, parts of the meeting that are to be held in public will be recorded and broadcast on the Internet.