From: Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez [mailto:[log in to unmask]]

After studying how GAC “advice” has evolved over the years I would warn strongly against giving GAC or any other AC an “advisory” role to the Community Mechanism process.

Do you mean beyond the advice to the Board? Would this mean that the GAC may go against a majority decision of the community mechanism?

MM: Yes, I mean beyond advice to the board. What I mean is, don’t create the same relationship between GAC:Community Mechanism as there is now between GAC: Board