Operations and activities of the Biosafety Clearing-House (Decision BS-II/2)
The meeting adopted a multi-year programme of work for the operation of the Biosafety Clearing-House which has five main strategic objectives namely: 1) to improve ease of reporting and accessing information in the BCH; 2) to increase the amount of information that is currently being reported to the BCH and to ensure it is provided in a timely manner; 3) to make a broader range of biosafety information accessible to users of the BCH; 4) to enhance the capabilities of countries to access information through Internet-based BCH and to ensure that users without good Internet access are able to receive information made available through the BCH in a timely manner; and 5) to review the programme of work to ensure that is achieving the goals of the BCH effectively. The meeting also requested the Secretariat to continue to support capacity-building efforts to enable the active participation of countries in the BCH.
