The Committee,

1. Having examined the proposal of Turkey to host its third ordinary session;
2. Decides to hold its third ordinary session in Istanbul, in the last trimester of 2008;
3. Having examined the proposal of Bulgaria to host its second extraordinary session in early 2008 in Sofia;
4. Decides to hold its second extraordinary session in late February 2008 in Sofia to consider:

                 a. Finalization of reports containing the decisions and recommendations of the Committee to be submitted to the approval of the General Assembly of the States Parties in order to                      begin the operationalization of the Convention;
                 b. Consideration and revision, if needed, of the organizational and working methods of the Committee to better fulfill the functions entrusted to it by the Convention, including, if                          necessary, revision of the Rules of Procedure;
                 c.  All other tasks assigned to it by the decisions of the second session of the Committee, as well as matters related to the smooth start-up of the implementation of the                                      Convention.