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In the interests of speedily informing interested readers of the results
of the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (Bratislava,
Slovakia, 4 to 15 May 1998), the Secretariat of the Convention on
Biological Diversity is making available the texts of the decisions
adopted on the final day of the meeting. It should be noted that these
are advance unedited versions, and are subject to editing and correction
as required. The final texts of the decisions will be included in the
full report of the meeting currently under preparation.

For the text of the decisions access the CBD web site at 
http://www.biodiv.org/cop4/FinalRep-/finrep.html


Decisions 

IV/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 

IV/2 
Review of the operations of the clearing-house mechanism 

IV/3 
Issues related to biosafety 

IV/4 
Status and trends of the biological diversity of inland water
ecosystems and options for conservation and sustainable use 

IV/5 
Conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal
biological diversity, including a programme of work 

IV/6 
Agricultural biological diversity 

IV/7 
Forest biological diversity 

IV/8 
Access and benefit-sharing 

IV/9 
Implementation of Article 8(j) and related provisions 

IV/10 
Measures for implementing the Convention 

IV/11 
Review of the effectiveness of the financial mechanism 

IV/12 
Additional financial resources 

IV/13 
Additional guidance to the financial mechanism 

IV/14 
National reports by Parties 

IV/15 
The relationship of the Convention with the Commission on
Sustainable Development and biodiversity-related conventions,
other international agreements, institutions and processes of
relevance 

IV/16 
Institutional matters and the programme of work 

IV/17 
Programme budget for the biennium 1999-2000 

IV/18 
Date and venue of the fifth meeting of the Conference of the
Parties 

IV/19 
Tribute to the Government and People of the Slovak Republic