Introduction
The
Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization was adopted at the tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on 29 October 2010, in Nagoya, Japan. This Protocol aims at further implementing one of the three objectives of the Convention: the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources (ABS).
The Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on ABS
(ICNP) was established by Parties to the Convention to undertake the preparations necessary for the first meeting of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol, at which time it will cease to exist.
The first meeting of the ICNP will be held from 6-10 June 2011 in Montreal, Canada, and will be preceded by a meeting on 5 June 2011 to elect its Bureau and agree on other organizational matters. The ICNP will address issues as set out in its work plan contained in Annex II of
decision X-1.
