The procedure for the submission of proposals for the amendment of the Agreement is defined by Article X.3 of the Agreement.

Through Resolution 8.1, the Meeting of the Parties (MOP) established an additional preliminary voluntary step to the procedure to enable the AEWA Technical Committee to review and provide advice on proposed amendments before their submission to sessions of the MOP. As per Art. VII.3(a), one of the functions of the Technical Committee is to provide advice to MOP, and through the Secretariat, to Parties. In accordance with this additional step, the text of any proposed amendment and the reasons for it, other than proposed amendments originating from the work of the Technical Committee, should be communicated by the submitting Contracting Party to the Technical Committee, through the Agreement Secretariat, preferably 300 days and not later than 250 days before the opening of the session of the Meeting of the Parties.

The dates of the 9th Session of the Meeting of the Parties (MOP9) are currently being discussed with the host country and are tentatively aimed at the second half of October 2025. They will be announced as soon as confirmed with the host country. In the interim, the provisional 300-day deadline for the additional voluntary step of the submission procedure will be 15 December 2024 and the provisional 250-day deadline will be
3 February 2025.

As soon as the MOP9 dates have been confirmed, a notification with the updated and precise deadlines for the preliminary submission of proposed amendments to the Agreement will be circulated.

For further information, please contact the Secretariat at aewa.secretariat@unep-aewa.org.