Procedural requirements and the scope and content of applicable law for the consideration of appeals under decision 27/CMP.1 and other relevant decisions of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, as well as the approach taken by other relevant international bodies relating to denial of due process. Technical paper.
This document was prepared in response to a request made by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP), at its sixth session, for the secretariat to prepare a technical paper outlining the procedural requirements and the scope and content of applicable law for the consideration of appeals under decision 27/CMP.1 and other relevant CMP decisions, as well as the approach taken by bodies constituted under other multilateral environmental agreements and other international bodies in relation to provisions for the consideration of denial of due process. The request was made in the context of agenda item 8, "Matters relating to compliance under the Kyoto Protocol", sub-item (b), "Appeal by Croatia against a final decision of the enforcement branch of the Compliance Committee in relation to the implementation of decision 7/CP.12". Parties agreed that the findings of the secretariat will be used in their further discussions