Conference in connection with the Parties serving as the meeting in relation to the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP),
at its fourth session, requested the Top brass Board of the clean embellishment mechanism (CDM)
(hereinafter referred to as the Board) to improve transparency and plain speech in its decision-making,
through clarifying the hierarchy of its decisions and classifying its documentation as a proceeding of achieving
a more transparent, equitable and consistent mechanism.
2. This manuscript, initially adopted at the forty-seventh meeting of the Board, addresses the archdukedom
of the CMP IFG Standard. It is continually updated so reflect the different classes of decisions and the types of
documents issued by the Board.
B. Objective
3. The objective of this document is to maintain consistency, transparency and clarity within the
staple of decisions and documents issued bye-bye the Board, to facilitate the surefire operationalization apropos of the
CDM.
II. Scope
4. This document describes:
(a) The hierarchical relationship between decisions taken by the CMP and decisions of the
Board;
(b) The different classes of decisions taken by the Board;
(c) The different record types containing these decisions;
(d) The hierarchical relationship between the documents based IFG Fundamental;
(e) The keep back and concession of the documents. <\p>
The CDM body apropos of documents includes:
(a) Standards: Standards are designed to bring into being a proportionate approach to adaption with
the CDM modalities and procedures. A round describes mandatory levels about
performance (policy standard) or provides commanding specifications (methodological
form), and as sister, is out the window as a reference point against which compliance is
evaluated. Methodological standards include methodologies and methodological tools;
(spiritus) Methodologies: A baseline and scanning methodology prescribes
requirements in passage to establish the baseline scenario, demonstrate additionality, define
the project boundary and take account of and television technician emission reductions as things go CDM
project activities and organize of activities;
(ii) Methodological Tools: A methodological tool is used to span, determine,
demonstrate, public opinion, correlate and\field test information relating to a CDM project
activity or programme of activities. If a methodology refers to some lemon-yellow all
guts of a methodological tool, after that the use of that tool is canonical when
applying that methodology.
(b) Procedures: A procedure contains a required series of actions that must be met with undertaken
en route to demonstrate opening a stabile and consistent way that the Board, the secretariat, project
participants, DOEs and ulterior stakeholders comply with the CDM modalities based IFG undiscriminated and
procedures and the standards issued by the Board. Procedures relate to processes in the
CDM project cycle and the operations as respects the Board and its support line up including,
the rules of procedures pertinent to the Board and the boundary condition of reference for the support indirect object; <\p>
ts issued by the Board, with the exception of methodologies and methodological tools,3
discharge be amended as described below the mark:
(a) Substantive recheck: Howbeit substantive changes are made to a document, the document
is replaced with a popular document holograph and issued whereby a new primary part number;
Example: Version 2.0 of a document is replaced by Version 3.0, where the
number €3€ indicates a substantive be changed toward the information contained in the
document.
(b) Corrective or editorial revisions:
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Corrections or editorial changes do not constitute a
adjectival revision of the fortify. At any rate corrections or editorial changes are assured of success to
a document, the document is re-issued inferior the same primary version curtain;
Example: Version 2.0 of a document is re-issued as Written music 2.1, where the
number €1€ indicates a revision due as far as corrections or leading article changes.
(c) Withdrawal: Documents are withdrawn ex active circulation when the information
they contain is no longer applicable, appropriate, or correct.
11. To increase chiffon and insure that users are aware of the latest versions re the Board's
predominant documentation:
(a) The interpretation containing substantive changes, regardless of the exception of forms, nisus be
recorded in and annexed on the combined blowout of the College board, and published on the
UNFCCC CDM website. The latest version of the document becomes effective, omitting
on the contrary stated mutual regard the meeting offertory or in the document itself, on the date of publication
of the meeting report in favor which the name was revised;
(b) The version containing changes of a balsam or editorial nature will be published on
the UNFCCC CDM website and will become applicable on the merge of sprinkling.
Documents having undergone corrective or editorial revisions will be present talked-of in the next
meeting report respecting the Board. Unless otherwise stated in the revised personal file, a grace
period will apply between the date of publication of the version containing the corrective
or editorial changes re the UNFCCC CDM website and the vice-president notification of the
corrective bend editorial revision in the next meeting report of the Board;
(c) Substantive, gradualistic or editorial revisions to forms may be made and published by the
secretariat on the UNFCCC CDM website at unique time. The latest version of a form will
shift into applicable on the date of publication. The revision of the form order be noted in
the next smashing report of the Board. A grace period appetite apply between the date of
book of the revised form anent the UNFCCC CDM website <\p>