Notification 2011-005
First meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing (ICNP 1), Montreal, Canada, 6-10 June 2011
Dear Madam/Sir, I am pleased to confirm that the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing (ICNP) will be held in Montreal, Canada, on 6-10 June 2011. The provisional agenda of the meeting is attached for your information and is available on the CBD website at: http://www.cbd.int/meetings/. Other documents for the meeting as well as the information note for participants will be made available as soon as practicable on the website of the Convention at the same address. In view of your interest in the issues addressed by the Intergovernmental Committee, I have the honour of inviting your organization to nominate a representative to attend the meeting. Designation of representatives, containing their name and contact details, should be submitted through an official letter addressed to the Executive Secretary by fax to +1 514 288 6588, or by email as a scanned attachment to: secretariat@cbd.int, no later than 8 April 2011. Please accept, Madam/Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration. PROVISIONAL AGENDA 1. Opening of the meeting. 2. Organizational matters. 3. Modalities of operation of the Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-House. 4. Measures to assist in capacity-building, capacity development and strengthening of human capacities and institutional capacities in developing countries. 5. Measures to raise awareness of the importance of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge. 6. Cooperative procedures and institutional mechanisms to promote compliance with the Protocol and to address cases of non-compliance. 4. Other matters. 5. Adoption of the report. 6. Closure of the meeting.
Executive Secretary
To: International organizations and relevant stakeholders