The Seventh Meeting of the Parties decided in Dec. VII/20 to accept the recommendations of the Implementation Committee:

1. That the Secretariat should be entitled to seek clarification on data reported under Article 7 if there is a discrepancy with the data in the country programme of the country concerned;
2. That it should be established through these clarifications, which are the best available and most accurate data. Should the clarification not result in an agreement, the data provided by the Party to the Secretariat should be used.