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Submission of information requested in decision on unintentional transboundary movements and emergency measures (Article 17)

Reference: SCBD/BS/MPM/DA/84222 (2015-002)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, Biosafety Clearing-House National Focal Point, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated)

Submission of scientifically sound information regarding the identification of Living Modified Organisms or specific traits that may have adverse effects on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, taking also into account risks to human health

Reference: SCBD/BS/MPDM/jh/67587 (2009-056)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), Biosafety Clearing House National Focal Points, Relevant Organizations

In order to allow timely deliberations on the issue by experts of the Open-ended Online Forum through a) ad hoc discussion groups, tentatively scheduled to start in November 2009; and b) real-time conferences, tentatively scheduled to start in February 2010, as well as by the experts of the AHT ...

Submission of scientifically sound information regarding the identification of living modified organisms or specific traits that may have adverse effects on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, taking also into account risks to human health

Reference: SCBD/BS/MPDM/jh/67587 (2009-103)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National Focal Points CBD National Focal Points where CPB focal points have not yet been designated Biosafety Clearing House National Focal Points Relevant Organizations

Please refer to my notification of 28 May 2009 (ref.: SCBD/BS/MPDM/jh/67587; available at http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2009/ntf-2009-056-bs-en.pdf) on the submission of scientifically sound information regarding the identification of living modified organisms or specific traits that may ...

Submission of the Second Regular National Reports

Reference: SCBD/BS/GF/ABw/74494 (2010-215)
To: National Focal Points of Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, cc: Biosafety Clearing-House National Focal Points

Reference is made to decision BS-V/14, paragraph 3, of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (COP-MOP), which requests Parties to submit their second regular national reports on the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosaf ...

Submission of the Third Regular National Reports

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/ABw/84181 (2015-001)
To: National Focal Points for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, cc: National Focal Points for the Biosafety Clearing-House

Submission of the fourth national report on the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/PD/MW/87939 (2019-019)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB Focal Points have not yet been designated), BCH Focal Points

Submission of views and experience on participating in or conducting virtual and hybrid meetings

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/WDY/IM/90891 (2023-027)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Submission of views and/or experience as invited by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/BS/WDY/jh/64396 (2009-164)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated)

With reference to the notification issued on 8 July 2008, SCBD/BS/CG/jh/64396, I would like to draw your attention to the following items where submissions have been invited by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (COP-MOP)

Submission of views and/or information in preparation for the Ad hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment and Risk Management

Reference: SCBD/BS/MPDM/ABw/65409 (2008-140)
To: National Focal Points of Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, other governments, and relevant international organizations

At its fourth meeting, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP), in its decision BS-IV/11, invited Parties, other Governments and relevant organizations to submit to the Executive Secretary information relevant to the wo ...

Submission of views and/or information in preparation for the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Biosafety Protocol

Reference: SCBD/BCH/CG/WDY/jh/60095 (2007-116)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points (or CBD Focal Points where Biosafety Focal Points have not yet been nominated)

I would like to draw your attention to the following decisions of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Biosafety Protocol (COP-MOP) where the COP MOP has invited or requested the submission of views and information not later than six months prior to the date ...

Subregional Dialogue on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans for the Pacific Countries

18 - 21 March 2024, Nadi, Fiji

Subregional dialogue on national biodiversity strategies and action plans for Caribbean countries

15 - 17 April 2024, Georgetown, Guyana

Summit on Biodiversity

Reference: SCBD/OES/EM/DC/IS/88838 (2020-034)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Support to Facilitate the Effective Participation of Parties in the Third Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/CE/89733 (2021-049)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points

Survey Form to Assist Parties to Assess the Level of Public Awareness of Issues Regarding Living Modified Organisms

Reference: SCBD/BS/UN/CG/jh/78011 (2011-203)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated)

I am pleased to inform you that, in accordance with operational objective 2.1 of the programme of work, the Secretariat has developed a template, which could be adapted, expanded and used by Parties in undertaking the above activity. The template is available in English, French and Spanish and c ...

Survey on key indicators of the Programme of Work on Public Awareness, Education and Participation Concerning Living Modified Organisms

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/PD/UN/88392 (2019-092)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points and CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated)

Survey on the extension of the OECD Unique Identifier system to transgenic animals

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/AMC/MW/91862 (2024-090)
To: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, BCH focal points, relevant organizations

Symposium on Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Biosecurity in Central America and the Caribbean

3 - 5 July 2002, Turrialba, Costa Rica

Symposium on the Role of Erosion and Sediment Transport in Nutrient and Contaminant Transfer

10 - 14 July 2000, Waterloo, Canada

Technical Consultation on Biosecurity in Food and Agriculture

2 - 5 December 2002, Bangkok, Thailand

Technical Consultation on Biotechnology

4 June 2001, Rome, Italy

Technical Expert Meeting on Handling, Transport, Packaging and Identification of Living Modified Organisms (Article 18, paragraph 2.a)

18 - 20 March 2002, Montreal, Canada

Technical Expert Meeting on Handling, Transport, Packaging and Identification of Living Modified Organisms (Article 18, paragraphs 2.b and 2.c)

13 - 15 March 2002, Montreal, Canada

Technical Group of Experts on Liability and Redress under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

18 - 20 October 2004, Montreal, Canada

Technical Meeting on the Implementation of the Biosafety Clearing House (BCH) in Industrialized Countires: Experiences and Future Development

29 - 30 September 2003, Geneva, Switzerland

Tenth meeting of the Compliance Committee under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

29 - 31 May 2013, Montreal, Canada

Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (Part Two)

7 - 19 December 2022, Montreal, Canada

Tenth meeting of the Informal Advisory Committee on the Biosafety Clearing-House

11 - 12 April 2016, Ispra, Italy

Tenth meeting of the Liaison Group on Capacity-building for Biosafety

7 - 9 April 2014, Budapest, Hungary

Testing of the "Guidance on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms"

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/MPM/jh/77649R (2011-227)
To: National Focal Points of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CBD when no CPB designated), Relevant Organizations

Further to my notification SCBD/BS/CG/MPM/jh/77649, dated 23 September 2011, I am pleased to inform you that the deadline for submitting results of the testing of the overall utility and applicability of the Guidance on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms has been extended to 15 Decembe ...

Testing of the “Guidance on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms”

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/MPM/jh/77649 (2011-182)
To: National Focal Points of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CBD when no CPB designated), Relevant Organizations

At the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP), the Parties welcomed the collaborative efforts of the Open-ended Online Expert Forum and an Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Risk Assessment and R ...

Testing of the “Guidance on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms” in actual cases of risk assessment

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/MPM/DA/82041 (2013-048)
To: BCH Focal Points, National Focal Points of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CBD when no CPB designated), Relevant Organizations

Text of a proposed supplementary protocol to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/BS/WDY/ps/71342 (2010-059)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National focal points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated)

In response to the requirement under Article 27 of the Biosafety Protocol, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol (COP-MOP) established, at its first meeting held from 23 to 27 February 2004 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, an Open-ended Ad Hoc Wo ...

The Biosafety of GM Plants, with Special Reference to Ecological Impacts

3 - 8 November 2006, Niamey, Niger

The CTE special session on information exchange and observer status

Statement by Dr. Hamdallah Zedan, Executive Secretary<br>Geneva, Switzerland, 12 November 2002

The Electronic Version of the Publication “The Convention on Biological Diversity Year in Review 2010” Is Now Available.

The Future of Food Biotechnology: Commodity Crops and Other Developments

29 - 30 October 2001, Washington D.C., United States of America

The Gambia Becomes the 100th State to Ratify the Biosafety Protocol

Ratification of the Biosafety Protocol by The Gambia comes one year after the Republic of Palau became the 50th State to ratify on 13 June 2003, which triggered the countdown to the entry into force 90 days later, on 11 September 2003. Full text of the Press Release available here

The Governing Body of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety Holds its First Meeting

<p>Montreal, 15 February 2004 – More than 1000 delegates representing governments and relevant organizations will convene in the Malaysian city of Kuala Lumpur, from 23-27 February 2004, for the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena ...

The International Treaty on Damage Resulting from Living Modified Organisms Receives Sixteen Signatures

Montreal, 12 May 2011 – Fifteen countries and the European Union yesterday signed the Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety at a ceremony held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

The Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Protocol on Liability and Redress for Damage Resulting from Living Modified Organisms born in Nagoya

Nagoya, 12 October, 2010 – After more than six years of intense negotiations, Parties to the Biosafety Protocol finalized the negotiation of a new treaty known as the “Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety”.

The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress reaches the halfway mark to entry into force with ratification by Hungary

The Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety reached the halfway mark to entry into force after Hungary deposited the 20th instrument of ratification on 9 December 2013.

The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress reaches the halfway mark to entry into force with ratification by Hungary.

The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress comes closer to entry into force with the latest ratification by Slovakia

Montreal, 7 May 2015 – With Slovakia’s ratification on 29 April 2015, the Nagoya–Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety needs only nine more ratifications to enter into force.

The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress receives 51 signatories

The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety closed for signature yesterday with a total of 51 signatories. Since the beginning of this year the Supplementary Protocol received 14 more signatures from the following Parties to the ...

The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Biosafety Protocol comes closer to entry into force with the latest ratifications by Congo, Liberia and Togo

Montreal, 25 May 2016 – With Congo’s accession on 16 May 2016, the Nagoya–Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety needs only six more ratifications to enter into force.

The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety closed for signature yesterday with a total of 51 signatories.

The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety enters into force today, 5 March 2018.

The Release of Genetically Modified Organisms in the Environment: is it a Human Health Hazard?

7 - 9 September 2000, Rome, Italy

The Sixth Conference of the Parties (COP-6) to the Basel Convention

9 - 13 December 2002, Geneva, Switzerland