Article 22 Conference of Parties
United Kingdom
A Conference of Parties shall be established. The Conference of Parties shall be the plenary and supreme body of this Convention.
The Conference of Parties shall meet in ordinary session every two years, as far as possible, in conjunction with the General Conference of Unesco. It may meet in extraordinary session if it so decides or if the Intergovernmental Committee receives a request to that effect from at least one-third of the Parties.
The Conference of Parties shall adopt its own rules of procedure.
The functions of the Conference of Parties shall be, inter alia:
to elect the Members of the Intergovernmental Committee;
to receive and examine reports of the Parties to this Convention transmitted by the Intergovernmental Committee;
to approve the operational guidelines prepared upon its request by the Intergovernmental Committee;
to take whatever other measures it may consider necessary to further the objectives of this Convention.