Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf
(CLCS)
Voluntary trust funds
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Actions taken at the 55th
session of the General Assembly in October 2000
The first trust fund that the General Assembly requested the
Secretary-General to establish was for the purpose of defraying the cost of
participation of the members of the Commission from developing States in the
meetings of the Commission. The second fund, created by the same resolution, is intended "to provide
training for technical and administrative staff, and technical and scientific
advice, as well as personnel, to assist developing States, in particular the
least developed countries and small island developing States, for the purpose of
desktop studies and project planning, and preparing and submitting information
under article 76 and annex II to the Convention in accordance with the
procedures of the Scientific and Technical Guidelines of the Commission on the
Limits of the Continental Shelf" (see General Assembly resolution
55/7).
Actions
taken at the 58th
session of the General Assembly in December 2003
At its 58th session, the
General Assembly recognized the importance of the Trust Fund for preparation of
submissions to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in
assisting developing States, in particular the least developed countries and
small island developing States, in preparing their submissions where their
continental shelves extend beyond 200 nautical miles. In order to facilitate the
access of developing States to the Trust Fund, as well as its management, the
General Assembly amended sections 1, 4 and 6 of the terms of reference, guidelines and rules
of the Trust Fund, as set out in the annex to
resolution
58/240. The original terms of reference were contained in annex II to General Assembly resolution
55/7 of 30
October 2000.