However, the majority of documents submitted contain proposals, either as draft resolutions or draft decisions. Length of documents Participants in meetings of the Conference of the Parties have a great deal to read. Documents submitted should therefore be as concise as possible. The Conference recommends that, as a general rule, documents submitted should not be more than 12 pages long. Form of documents It will help the Secretariat very much if documents submitted for consideration are sent both in printed form and in electronic form.
Decisions are generally to be implemented within a short time and then become obsolete.
They include instructions to Committees, working groups or the Secretariat, unless the tasks to be done are part of a long-term procedure. For historical reasons, some of the current Decisions are not in accordance with this explanation. These cases are to be corrected. After each meeting of the Conference, the Secretariat has to update the list of Decisions. Resolutions are generally of a long-lasting nature.