The COP decided at its seventeenth session to, inter alia, approve the Governing Instrument for the Fund, designate the Fund as an operating entity of the financial mechanism of the Convention, provide guidance to the Board of the Fund, taking into account the Board &apos; s annual reports to the COP on its activities, and request the Board to undertake specific actions to operationalize the Fund in an expedited manner (decision 3/CP.17, paragraphs 1-26).
The COP decided at its seventeenth session to, inter alia, approve the Governing Instrument for the Fund, designate the Fund as an operating entity of the financial mechanism of the Convention, provide guidance to the Board of the Fund, taking into account the Board &apos; s annual reports to the COP on its activities, and request the Board to undertake specific actions to operationalize the Fund in an expedited manner (decision 3/CP.17, paragraphs 1-26).