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Compliance under the Kyoto Protocol
 

What's new:

Tenth meeting of the plenary of the Compliance Committee (9 February 2012)
Eighteenth meeting of the enforcement branch (7–8 & 10 February 2012)
Eleventh meeting of the facilitative branch (6–8 February 2012)

Date: 6–10 February 2012
Venue: UN Campus (Langer Eugen)
- Directions to the UN Campus
Hermann-Ehlers-Strasse 10
53113 Bonn
Germany

Observer registration deadline: 1 February 2012

ImageWebcast:  Facilitative Branch Enforcement Branch & Plenary (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 tenth meeting)
       
·    the enforcement branch page of the UNFCCC website (under eighteenth meeting
            CC-2009-1/Croatia/EB,  CC-2011-1/Romania/EB and CC-2011-2/Ukraine/EB)
       
·    the facilitative branch page of the UNFCCC website (under eleventh meeting)

 Accessibility to observers:
According to rule 9 of the pdf-icon Rules of Procedure of the Compliance Committee of the Kyoto Protocol (189 kB) "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 (pdf-icon Report on the 4th meeting (154 kB) ) 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. Elsa Paclibar-Schroeder at the 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 (here). The deadline for registration as an observer is 1 February 2012, 5:00 p.m., Central European Time. Please note that only observers who register within the above deadline will have access to the venue. Observers are kindly asked to refer to the pdf-icon Guidelines (60 kB) 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 held in public will be recorded and broadcast on the Internet.



Informal information notes by the secretariat on questions of implementation considered by the enforcement branch
 
Questions of implementation
Greece pdf-icon Informal information note (84 kB) Question of implementation
Canada pdf-icon Informal information note (81 kB) Question of implementation
Croatia

pdf-icon Informal information note (135 kB)

Questions of implementation
Bulgaria

pdf-icon Informal information note (111 kB)

Question of implementation
Romania pdf-icon Informal information note (109 kB)   Question of implementation 
Ukraine  pdf-icon Informal information note (122 kB) Question of implementation 
Lithuania  pdf-icon Informal information note (109 kB)   Question of implementation


General information concerning the Kyoto Protocol compliance mechanism
 

The Kyoto Protocol compliance mechanism
Introduction
Background
pdf-icon The Compliance system (117 kB)
Plenary
Enforcement branch
Facilitative branch
Key Decisions

Decision 27/CMP.1 Procedures and mechanisms relating to compliance under the Kyoto Protocol

Decision 4/CMP.2
Rules of procedure of the Compliance Committee

Decision 4/CMP.4
Amendments to the rules
of procedure of the
Compliance Committee of the Kyoto Protocol

pdf-icon Consolidated rules of procedure (189 kB) of the Compliance Committee

pdf-icon Working arrangements (12 kB) relating to the public participation in meetings of the Compliance Committee

pdf-icon Working arrangements (2303 kB) on conflict of interest in relation to the work of the Compliance Committee

pdf-icon Working arrangements (114 kB) relating to time frames

pdf-icon Working arrangements (114 kB) relating to contact with a Party concerned

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Members of the Compliance Committee

Members of the Compliance Committee

 
Useful Information

Eligibility of Annex I Parties to participate in the mechanisms under Articles 6, 12 and 17
pdf-icon Eligibility list

Reports
(122 kB) forwarded to the Compliance Committee

pdf-icon Kyoto Protocol Reference Manual on Accounting of Emissions and Assigned Amounts

FCCC/KP/CMP/2011/5  
FCCC/KP/CMP/2011/5/Corr.1
Sixth Annual Report of the Compliance Committee to the Conference of Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol

FCCC/KP/CMP/2010/6
Fifth Annual Report of the Compliance Committee to the Conference of Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol

FCC/KP/CMP/2009/17
Fourth Annual Report of the Compliance Committee to the Conference of Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol

FCC/KP/CMP/2008/5
Third Annual Report of the Compliance Committee to the Conference of Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol

FCC/CMP/KP/2007/6
Second Annual Report of the Compliance Committee to the Conference of Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol

FCC/KP/CMP/2006/6
First Annual Report of the Compliance Committee to the Conference of Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol