Article 15
1. The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and
the Subsidiary Body for Implementation established by Articles 9 and
10 of the Convention shall serve as, respectively, the Subsidiary
Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and the Subsidiary Body
for Implementation of this Protocol. The provisions relating to the
functioning of these two bodies under the Convention shall apply
mutatis mutandis to this Protocol. Sessions of the meetings
of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and
the Subsidiary Body for Implementation of this Protocol shall be held
in conjunction with the meetings of, respectively, the Subsidiary
Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and the Subsidiary Body
for Implementation of the Convention.
2. Parties to the Convention that are not Parties to this Protocol
may participate as observers in the proceedings of any session of the
subsidiary bodies. When the subsidiary bodies serve as the subsidiary
bodies of this Protocol, decisions under this Protocol shall be taken
only by the Parties to this Protocol.
3. When the subsidiary bodies established by Articles 9 and 10 of
the Convention exercise their functions with regard to matters
concerning this Protocol, any member of the Bureaux of those
subsidiary bodies representing a Party to the Convention but, at that
time, not a Party to this Protocol, shall be substituted by an
additional member to be elected by and from amongst the Parties to
this Protocol.