| 1 | Up to146 Parties will participate with voting rights. | |
| 2 | Only Parties to the Convention may be Parties to a protocol. | |
| 3 | The United States was the only one among 175 parties to reject it. | |
| 4 | Any protocol to the Convention shall be binding only on the Parties to the protocol in question. | |
| 5 | During this session, the Rules of Procedure and Financial Rules for the Conference of the Parties were adopted by consensus. |