Meeting Documents

Report of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety on the work of its third meeting

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Provisional agenda

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Adoption of the agenda
Annotations to the provisional agenda

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Report on the implementation of inter-sessional activities

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Liability and redress for damage resulting from transboundary movements of Living Modified Organisms

5.

Compliance (article 34)
Summary of views or understandings on the contents in square brackets in the text of the draft procedures and mechanisms on compliance under the Cartagena Protocal on Biosafety

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Information-sharing
Progress report on the development and implementation of the pilot phase of the Biosafety Clearing-House

7.

Summary of the independent review of the pilot phase of the Biosafety Clearing-House

8.

Third note by the bureau of the ICCP on technical issues associated with the development of the pilot phase, and preparation for the implementation phase of the Biosafety Clearing-House

9.

Synthesis of capacity-building needs identified by the regions for implementation of the pilot phase of the Biosafety Clearing-House

10.

Capacity-building (article 22, article 28)

11.

Operationalization of the Roster of Experts

12.

Handling, transport, packaging and identification of Living Modified Organisms (Article 18)

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Report of the meeting of technical experts on the requirements of paragraph 2 (a) of Article 18 of the cartagena protocol on biosafety

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Report of the second meeting of technical experts on handling, transport, packaging and identification of living modified organisms

15.

Monitoring and reporting (Article 33)

16.

Consideration of other issues necessary for the effective implementation of the Protocol (e.g., paragraph 4, article 29)

17.

Synthesis of views on items to be included in a medium-term programme of work

18.

Report of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety on the work of its third meeting

1.

Liability and redress (Article 27)
Compilation of information on national, regional and international measures and agreements in the field of liability and redress for damage resulting from the transboundary movements of living modified organism

2.

Liability and redress (Article 27)
Compilation of views on the terms of reference for the open-ended ad hoc group of legal and technical experts under Article 27 of the Protocol

3.

Compliance (Article 34)
Compilation of views on compliance procedures and mechanisms under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

4.

Capacity-building (Article 22 and Article 28, paragraph 3)
Compilation of views on capacity building (Article 22) under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

5.

Handling, transport, packaging and identification (Article 18)
Compilation of views and relevant information on Article 18 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

6.

Monitoring and reporting (Article 33)
Compilation of views on monitoring and reporting under the Cartagena Rrotocol on Biosafety

7.

Consideration of other issues necessary for the effective implementation of the Protocol (e.g., paragraph 4, Article 29)
Compilation of views on other issues necessary for the effective implementation of the Cartagena Rrotocol on Biosafety

8.

Information-sharing (Article 20)
Report of the Central and Eastern Europe regional meeting on the Biosafety Clearing-House

9.

Information-sharing (Article 20)
Report of the Asia and the Pacific regional meeting on the Biosafety Clearing-House

10.

Information-sharing (Article 20)
Independent review of the pilot phase of the Biosafety Clearing-House

11.

Capacity-building (Article 22 and Article 28, paragraph 3)
UNEP/GEF project on the development of national biosafety frameworks

12.

Information-sharing (Article 20)
OECD guidance for the designation of a unique identifier for transgenic plants

13.

Comments by Japan on the recommendations of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety at its second meeting

14.

Handling, transport, packaging and identification (Article 18)
Example templates submitted by Norway

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Press Release

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Calendar of side events