Summary of the outcomes of COP-MOP 1

The gist of the decisions adopted by COP-MOP/1 can be summarized as follows:

Decision procedure (Article 10, para.7)
Information-sharing and the Biosafety Clearing-House (Article 20, para.4)
Capacity-building (Article 22; Article 28, para.3)
Handling, transport, packaging and identification (Article 18)
Compliance (Article 34)
Liability and redress (Article 27)
Monitoring and reporting (Article 33)
Secretariat (Article 31, para.3)
Guidance to the financial mechanism (Article 28, para. 5, Article 22)
Consideration of other issues necessary for the effective implementation of the Protocol (e.g., Article 29, para.4)
Medium-term programme of work
Date and venue for the second meeting of the COP-MOP

Medium-term programme of work:

Agreed on a medium-term programme of work for the COP-MOP (from its second to its fifth meetings), according to which the second and third meetings would be held on an annual basis, with a decision on subsequent periodicity of meetings to be taken at a later stage.