(Agenda item 5)

Proceedings

The SBSTA considered this item at its 2 nd and 6 th meetings, held jointly with the SBI, on 12 and 16 June respectively. It had before it the following documents: FCCC/SB/2000/1 and FCCC/SB/2000/MISC.2 and Corr.1.

At the joint meeting on 12 June, Mr. Tuiloma Neroni Slade (Samoa) provided a report on the informal meetings relating to this item, which he had chaired during the pre-sessional week together with Mr. Harald Dovland (Norway), Chairman of the SBSTA, at the request of the chairmen of the subsidiary bodies. The chairmen referred discussion of this item to the Joint Working Group on Compliance (JWG) established by decision 8/CP.4,1 under the co-chairmanship of Mr. Dovland and Mr. Slade.

At the joint meeting on 16 June, Mr. Slade presented the report of the JWG on its work during the twelfth sessions of the subsidiary bodies (FCCC/SB/2000/CRP.3/Rev.1).

Conclusions

At the joint meeting on 16 June, the SBSTA and the SBI took note of the report of the JWG, and agreed that it would be annexed to the report of the SBI (see FCCC/SBI/2000/5, annex III).

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1 For the full texts of decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its fourth session, see document FCCC/CP/1998/16/Add.1.