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CONVENTION ON	GENERAL

BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

UNEP/CBD/COP/2/1

10 August 1995

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE

CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

Second meeting

Jakarta, 6-17 November 1995

PROVISIONAL AGENDA

1.	Opening of the meeting.

2.	Organizational matters:

2.1	Election of officers;

2.2	Adoption of the agenda;

2.3	Organization of work.

3.	Pending issues arising from the work of the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties:

3.1	Paragraph 1 of rule 40 of the Rules of Procedure for meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity;

3.2	Paragraphs 4 and 16 of the Financial Rules for the Administration of the Trust Fund for the Convention on Biological Diversity.

4.	Scientific, technical and technological matters:

4.1	Report of the first meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice;

4.2	Clearing-house mechanism for technical and scientific cooperation;

4.3	Ways to promote and facilitate access to, and transfer and development of technology;

4.4	Consideration of the need for and modalities of a protocol for safe handling and transfer of living modified organisms.

5.	Matters related to financial resources and mechanism:

5.1	Report on the activities of the Global Environment Facility as the interim institutional structure;

5.2	Report of the Secretariat on the financial mechanism under the Convention;

5.3	Study on the availability of additional financial resources;

5.4	List of developed country Parties and other Parties which voluntarily assume the obligations of developed country Parties;

5.5	Designation in accordance with Article 21 of the Convention of the institutional structure to operate the financial mechanism;

5.6	Draft memorandum of understanding between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Global Environment Facility.

6.	Conservation and sustainable use:

6.1	Consideration of Articles 6 and 8 of the Convention;

6.2	Preliminary consideration of components of biological diversity particularly under threat and action which could be taken under the Convention;

6.3	Coastal and marine biological diversity.

7.	Access to genetic resources:

7.1	Existing legislation, administrative and policy information on access to genetic resources and the equitable sharing of benefits derived from their use;

7.2	Policy, legislative, or administrative measures related to intellectual property rights as provided in Article 16 of the Convention and to access to and transfer of technology that makes use of genetic resources.

8.	Relationship with other bodies:

8.1	Outcome of the third session of the Commission on Sustainable Development;

8.2	Cooperation with other biodiversity-related conventions;

8.3	FAO Global System for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture:

8.3.1	International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture;

8.3.2	International Technical Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture;

8.3.3	Ex-situ collections of plant genetic resources.

9.	Form and intervals of national reports by Parties.

10.	Medium-term programme of work of the Conference of the Parties 1995-1997.

11.	Administrative matters:

11.1	Location of the Secretariat;

11.2	Report on the administration of the Convention;

11.3	Budget of the Trust Fund for the Convention on Biological Diversity.

12.	Report on the credentials of representatives to the second meeting of the Conference of the Parties.

13.	Venue and date of the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties.

14.	Other matters.

15.	Adoption of the report.

16.	Closure of the meeting.