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COP 4 Decisions
Fourth Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 4 - 15 May 1998 - Bratislava, Slovakia
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Decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity at its Fourth Meeting

Decisions
1.
Report and recommendations of the third meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, and instructions by the Conference of the Parties to the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice
2.
Review of the operations of the clearing-house mechanism
3.
Issues related to biosafety
4.
Status and trends of the biological diversity of inland water ecosystems and options for conservation and sustainable use
5.
Conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal biological diversity, including a programme of work
6.
Agricultural biological diversity
7.
Forest biological diversity
8.
Access and benefit-sharing
9.
Implementation of Article 8(j) and related provisions
10.
Measures for implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity
11.
Review of the effectiveness of the financial mechanism
12.
Additional financial resources
13.
Additional guidance to the financial mechanism
14.
National reports by Parties
15.
The relationship of the Convention on Biological Diversity with the Commission on Sustainable Development and biodiversity-related conventions, other international agreements, institutions and processes of relevance
16.
Institutional matters and the programme of work
17.
Programme budget for the biennium 1999-2000
18.
Date and venue of the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties
19.
Tribute to the Government and people of the Slovak Republic