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While there has been significant progress in the negotiation of new MEAs over the past several decades, until recently attention to implementation at teh state level has lagged. Many MEAs, however, obligate parties to submit national reports on their implementation; some go futher and review compliance with MEA obligations; and some MEAs evaluate their own effectiveness. Collectively these practices and associated rules and subsidiary bodies are termed review institutions. This report describes and analyses review institutions in the set of 10 major MEAs described in GEO-2000. While other studies exist for particular MEA review institutions, this report is the first to look at a wide range of major environmental agreements and to analyse their review institutions comparatively.