Secret ballots

Directed to the Standing Committee

12.100

The Standing Committee shall examine the general issue of secret ballots and in particular the question of whether secret ballots should be retained in the Rules of Procedure of the Conference of the Parties and, if so, under what conditions. The Committee should review the way in which the use of secret ballots has been formulated in the Rules of Procedure and establish, to the extent possible, whether and when secret ballots have been used under other biodiversity-related conventions and global, multilateral environmental agreements, and report at the next meeting of the Conference of the Parties.