Introduction
Article 33 of the Biosafety Protocol requires Parties to monitor implementation of their obligations under the Protocol and to report to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (COP-MOP) on measures taken to implement the Protocol.
In its
decision BS-I/9, the COP-MOP adopted a reporting format and requested Parties to submit reports every four years, but in the initial four-year period to submit an interim report two years after entry into force of the Protocol, i.e. by 11 September 2005.
The
Interim Reports page provides access to the complete text of the interim reports submitted to the Secretariat. Electronic facilities intended to assist users to aggregate and analyse data according to selected Parties, geographic area, economic groups and other criteria are also available. Where possible, courtesy translations may have been made available for reports submitted prior to the deadline for submission.
Further information on National Reports submitted pursuant to this decision, are made available through the
National Reports webpage once they are received.
At its third meeting, COP-MOP adopted, after considering the analysis of the interim reports that were submitted to the Parties, in
decision BS-III/14, a format for the first regular national report on implementation of the Protocol and outlined a schedule and the process for the preparation and synthesis of the reports for consideration at the fourth COP-MOP meeting.
COP-MOP 4 considered an analysis of first national reports prepared by the Secretariat and the format of the national reports. In its
decision BS-IV/14, it requested the Secretariat to repeat the analysis of the first national reports submitted after the deadline and make the analysis available through the BCH. It also requested the Secretariat to propose improvements to the reporting format from experiences of the first national reports, the recommendations of the Compliance Committee and suggestions made by Parties, for consideration at COP-MOP 5. In addition, urged the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to make financial resources available to improve capacity-building in preparing their national report.
The format for the first regular national report is available in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.
