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This section provides a summary of how the Parties to the BBNJ Treaty will implementation and compliance of the new obligations.

## What are the implementation and compliance obligations of a Party?

1\. take the necessary legislative, administrative or policy measures, as appropriate, to ensure the implementation of the BBNJ Treaty.  
2\. monitor the implementation of its obligations under the BBNJ Treaty report to the Conference of the Parties (COP), in a format and at intervals to be determined by the COP, on measures that it has taken to implement the Treaty.

*Ref. BBNJ Treaty Art. 53 and 54.*

*For information about* Parties*, visit the page* [here](/parties)*. For information about the COP, visit the page* [here](/cop-meetings)*.*

## What is the BBNJ Treaty's Implementation and Compliance Committee?

The BBNJ Treaty established an Implementation and Compliance Committee. The Committee will facilitate and consider the implementation of and promote compliance with the Treaty. The Committee will be facilitative in nature and function in a transparent, non-adversarial, and non-punitive manner.

The Conference of the Parties (COP) will adopt the modalities and rules of procedure for the Committee at its first meeting. In doing so, the Implementation and Compliance Committee will “consider issues of implementation and compliance at the individual and systemic levels, inter alia, and report periodically and make recommendations, as appropriate, while cognizant of respective national circumstances, to the Conference of the Parties.” The BBNJ Treaty provides that in the course of its work, the Committee “may draw on appropriate information from bodies established under this Agreement, as well as relevant legal instruments and frameworks and relevant global, regional, subregional and sectoral bodies, as may be required.”

The Parties will nominate the members of the Committee and the COP will elect the members with due consideration for gender balance and equitable geographical representation.

*Ref. BBNJ Treaty Art. 55.*

*For information about the COP, visit the page* [here](/cop-meetings)*.*