The secretariat’s practice of withholding funding to eligible Parties to participate in the UNFCCC process if they have contributions to the core budget outstanding was suspended at the request of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) at its nineteenth session. The SBI also requested the secretariat to review the financial impacts and the effects of the current practice of the secretariat in its implementation of paragraph 7 (c) of the financial procedures of the Convention, and the secretariat reported the findings of that review in document FCCC/SBI/2004/2. This present document reflects on the financial implications of suspending the practice outlined above