43rd Meeting - Geneva, 5-9 July 2004

The Executive Committee decided:

(a) To take note with appreciation of the Treasurer’s report, including the tables showing the updated status of the Fund as at 30 June 2004 and reproduced in Annex I to the present report;

(b) Also to take note of the new information provided by the Treasurer on the gains and losses resulting from the fixed-exchange-rate mechanism;

(c) To urge those Parties that had not yet done so to make their contributions in a timely manner; and

(d) To urge Parties to make contributions by 1 June each year, and, if that was not possible, to notify the Treasurer in accordance with paragraph 7 of decision XI/6 of the Eleventh Meeting of the Parties.