UNEP/MC/COP.3/INF/10 - Information on financial matters

In accordance with the financial rules for the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury and any of its subsidiary bodies, as well as financial provisions governing the functioning of the secretariat (decision MC-1/10, rule 3, para. 1), the head of the secretariat is to prepare budget estimates for the following biennium in United States dollars showing projected income and expenditures for each year and dispatch those estimates, as well as the actual income and expenditure for each year of the previous biennium and estimates of the actual expenditure in the current biennium, to all parties to the Convention at least 90 days before the opening of the meeting of the Conference of the Parties at which the budget is to be adopted.