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Twelfth Meeting of the Plenary of the Compliance Committee

-Twelfth meeting of the plenary of the Compliance Committee (22 March 2013)

-Twenty-second meeting of the enforcement branch (23 March 2013)

-Thirteenth meeting of the facilitative branch (23 March 2013)

Venue:   UN-Campus (Langer Eugen)           Directions to the UN Campus

Hermann-Ehlers-Strasse 10
53113 Bonn, Germany

Observer registration deadline:  15 March 2013
Webcast:  Plenary & Enforcement Branch, Facilitative Branch (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 twelfth meeting)

·   the enforcement branch page of the UNFCCC website (under twenty-second meeting, CC-2012-1/Slovakia/EB)

·   the facilitative branch page of the UNFCCC website (under thirteenth meeting)

Accessibility to observers: 

According to rule 9 of the Rules of Procedure 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 4^th 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. Elsa Paclibar-Schroeder 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 (http://unfccc.int/parties_and_observers/items/2704.php).  The deadline for registration as an observer is 15 March 2013, 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.