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Retirement of decisions

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Table of Contents

  1. Preamble
  2. Paragraph 1.
  3. Paragraph 2.
  4. Paragraph 3.
  5. Paragraph 4.
  6. Annex

Retirement of decisions

The Conference of the Parties,Recognizing that the exercise of retiring its decisions may have higher added value if directed towards supporting the review of implementation of existing decisions and creating a good basis for the adoption of new decisions,
1.Decides to retire the decisions and elements of decisions adopted at its seventh meeting listed in the annex to the present decision;
2.Also decides to refocus the exercise towards supporting the review of implementation of existing decisions and creating a good basis for the adoption of new decisions by integrating the exercise and proposals for retirement into the preparation and adoption of new decisions on the same subject matter, wherever possible;
3.Requests the Executive Secretary to make proposals on how best to implement paragraph 2 above, while ensuring that decisions that do not fall within paragraph 2 can also be considered for retirement, for consideration by the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention at its fifth meeting;
4.Requests the Working Group, at its fifth meeting, to prepare a recommendation for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its twelfth meeting.

Annex

Decisions and elements of decisions adopted by the conference of the parties at its seventh meeting to be retired

Decision VII/1, paragraphs 1-4, 7-8 and 10Decision VII/2, paragraphs 4-5 and 8-9Decision VII/3, paragraphs 1-2, 9 and 12Decision VII/4, paragraphs 1-3, 14(c), 16, 21, 25 and 28-30Decision VII/5, paragraphs 1-2, 4, 15, 37, 40-41, 47 and 54Decision VII/6, paragraphs 1-4 and 6Decision VII/7Decision VII/8, paragraphs 1 and 4Decision VII/9, paragraphs 1, 6 and 7(b)Decision VII/10, paragraphs 1-2 and 10Decision VII/11, paragraphs 5, 9(a) and (c)-(d) and 11-12Decision VII/12, paragraphs 3 and 5Decision VII/13, paragraphs 2-3, 4(c), (e) and (f), 5(a) and (b), 7(f), 9 and 10Decision VII/14, paragraphs 3(a) and (b) and 4-5Decision VII/15, paragraphs 3-7, 10-14, 16-17 and 19-20Decision VII/16, Section A, paragraph 1; Section B, paragraphs 1 and 2; Section C, paragraphs 1-3; Section E, paragraphs 2-7; and Section H, paragraph 8Decision VII/17Decision VII/18, paragraphs 3, 6 and 8-12Decision VII/19, Section B, paragraphs 1-4; Section C, paragraphs 1-3; Section D, paragraphs 1-9, and annex; and Section E, paragraphs 6-7 and 9-11Decision VII/21, paragraphs 1-2 and 4-9Decision VII/22Decision VII/23, Section A, paragraphs 1-8Decision VII/24, paragraphs 1-3, 4(c) and 7-8Decision VII/25, Section A, paragraphs 1, 4 and 7, and Section B, paragraphs 1-4, 8 and 9Decision VII/26, paragraphs 4 and 5Decision VII/27, paragraphs 3-5, 8-10(a)-(c) and (f), and 12Decision VII/28, paragraphs 2-3, 10, 14, 16, 24-26, 28-30 and 35(a) and (b)Decision VII/29, paragraphs 6, 7 and 12Decision VII/30, paragraphs 1-18, 20, 22 and 24-27, and annexes I-IIIDecision VII/31, paragraphs 3 and 7-8, and annexes I and IIDecision VII/32, paragraphs 2(b) and (c), 4 and 5Decision VII/33, paragraphs 1-9, and annexDecision VII/34, paragraphs 1-4, 6-26, 28 and 31Decision VII/35Decision VII/36