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Each Party shall:
(a) designate the Authority or Authorities
to implement this Agreement which shall, inter alia,
monitor all activities that may have impact on the conservation
status of those migratory waterbird species of which the
Party is a Range State;
(b) designate a contact point for the other Parties, and
communicate without delay its name and address to the Agreement
secretariat to be circulated forthwith to the other Parties;
and
(c) prepare for each ordinary session of the Meeting of
the Parties, beginning with the second session, a report
on its implementation of the Agreement with particular reference
to the conservation measures it has undertaken. The format
of such reports shall be determined by the first session
of the Meeting of the Parties and reviewed as may be necessary
at any subsequent session of the Meeting of the Parties.
Each report shall be submitted to the Agreement secretariat
not less than one hundred and twenty days before the ordinary
session of the Meeting of the Parties for which it has been
prepared, and copies shall be circulated forthwith to the
other Parties by the Agreement secretariat.
2.
(a) Each Party shall contribute to
the budget of the Agreement in accordance with the United
Nations scale of assessment. The contributions shall be restricted
to a maximum of 25 per cent of the total budget for any Party
that is a Range State. No regional economic integration organization
shall be required to contribute more than 2.5 per cent of
the administrative costs.
(b) Decisions relating to the budget and any changes to the
scale of assessment that may be found necessary shall be adopted
by the Meeting of the Parties by consensus.
3. The Meeting of the Parties may establish
a conservation fund from voluntary contributions of Parties
or from any other source for the purpose of financing monitoring,
research, training and projects relating to the conservation,
including protection and management, of migratory waterbirds.
4. Parties are encouraged to provide training
and technical and financial support to other Parties on
a multilateral or bilateral basis to assist them in implementing
the provisions of this Agreement.
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