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Second Series of Regional Real-time Online Conferences on Risk Assessment and Risk Management: WEOG and CEE

9 - 10 February 2010, Online

Second meeting of the Group of the Friends of the Co-Chairs on Liability and Redress in the context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

8 - 12 February 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Participation in the UNEP-GEF Project “BCH II: Continued enhancement of building capacity for effective participation in the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH)”

Reference: SCBD/BS/GF/ABw/70446 (2010-022)
To: National Focal Points for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB-NFPs), cc: National Focal Points for the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH-NFPs)

I am pleased to inform you that, in response to Decision BS-IV/2 of the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol (COP-MOP), the Global Environment Facility Council, at its meeting held in November 2009, approved the UNEP-GEF ...

Seventh Meeting of the Liaison Group on Capacity-building for Biosafety

4 - 5 February 2010, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Second Series of Regional Real-time Online Conferences on Risk Assessment and Risk Management: Asia and the Pacific

4 - 5 February 2010, Online

Invitation for comments on the updated Draft Elements of the Strategic Plan and Proposed Framework for the Second Assessment and Review of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety under Article 35

Reference: SCBD/BS/GF/ABw/70549 (2010-020)
To: National Focal Points for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD-NFPs); National Focal Points for the Cartagena Protocol of Biosafety (CPB-NFPs); National Focal Points for the Biosafety Clearing House (BCH-NFPs); Relevant Organizations

I am pleased to announce the launch of an online Forum on the Biosafety Clearing-House which is designed to provide the opportunity for comments.

Second Series of Regional Real-time Online Conferences on Risk Assessment and Risk Management: Africa

2 - 3 February 2010, Online

Sixth Coordination Meeting for Governments and Organizations Implementing or Funding Biosafety Capacity-building Activities

1 - 3 February 2010, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Message from Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Adoption of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

Message from Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Adoption of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reminder: Submission of views and/or information to facilitate decision making by the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/WDY/jh/70384 (2010-015)
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 earlier notifications seeking submissions as invited by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (COP-MOP), I would like to draw your attention to the following items that the Secretariat is yet to receive adequate number of submissions.

UNEP/CBD/BS/REGCONF-RA&RM/2/1

Provisional Agenda

Study of Users and Potential Users of the Biosafety Clearing-House

Reference: SCBD/BS/GF/ABw/69956 (2009-178)
To: BCH National Focal Points, CPB National Focal Points, Relevant Organizations

We are pleased to inform you that this study has been launched and that a survey has been prepared as a part of this process. The survey will be available online at http://bch.cbd.int/resources/bch-survey/ for completion until 31 January 2010.

UNEP/CBD/BS/REGCONF-RA&RM/2/1/ADD1

Annotations to the Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/BS/REGCONF-RA&RM/2/1/ADD1

Annotations to the Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/BS/REGCONF-RA&RM/2/1/ADD1

Annotations to the Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/BS/REGCONF-RA&RM/2/1/ADD1

Annotations to the Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/BS/REGCONF-RA&RM/2/1

Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/BS/REGCONF-RA&RM/2/1

Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/BS/REGCONF-RA&RM/2/1

Provisional Agenga

UNEP/CBD/BS/REGCONF-RA&RM/2/1

Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/BS/REGCONF-RA&RM/2/1

Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/BS/REGCONF-RA&RM/2/1

Provisional Agenda

UNEP/CBD/BS/REGCONF-RA&RM/2/1

Provisional Agenda

Second meeting of the Group of the Friends of the Co-Chairs concerning Liability and Redress in the Context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/BS/WDY/jh/69867 (2009-173)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National focal points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated)

The second meeting of the Group of the Friends of the Co-Chairs will be held from 8 to 12 February 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Invitation for Comments on the Draft Elements of a Strategic Plan of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/jh/69854 (2009-171)
To: National Focal Points for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD-NFPs)

At its meeting on 8 November 2009, the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (COP-MOP) requested that a process be initiated to enable Parties submit comments on the draft elements of a strategic plan (2011 to 2020) for the Cartagena Protoc ...

Extension of the Discussion Groups of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment and Risk Management to 14 December 2009

Reference: SCBD/BS/MPM/CG/jh/ 67587 (2009-166)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National focal points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), BCH National Focal Points

During the fourth COP-MOP, the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol agreed on the need for further guidance on specific aspects of risk assessment and risk management, and established an Open-ended online forum on specific aspects on risk assessment and an Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Asse ...

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)

Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Training of Trainers' Workshop on the Identification and Documentation of Living Modified Organisms under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

23 - 27 November 2009, Mexico City, Mexico

Communiqué: Enhancing Preparations for the Aichi-Nagoya Biodiversity Summit

Enhancing Preparations for the Aichi-Nagoya Biodiversity Summit

Montreal, 19 November 2009 – A powerful delegation from Japan visited the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD) in Montreal on 16-17 November to discuss substantive preparations for the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to ...

Reminder: Submission of Views on Possible Elements of the Programme of Work on Public Awareness, Education and Participation under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/BS/UN//jh/69589 (2009-154)
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 (BCH) National Focal Points Relevant Organizations

Please refer to my earlier notification of 26 May 2009 (ref.:SCBD/BS/UN/jh/67565, available at http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2009/ntf-2009-055-bs-en.pdf) regarding the submission of views on possible elements of a programme of work on public awareness, education and participation concerni ...

Meeting of the COP-MOP Bureau

8 November 2009, Montreal, Canada

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

4 - 6 November 2009, Montreal, Canada

Submission of information on experience gained with respect to identification of living modified organisms intended for direct use as food or feed or for processing (LMOs-FFP) - Decision BS-III/10 paragraph 2(a) of Article 18 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/KG/jh/69302 (2009-142)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points where CPB Focal Points have not yet been nominated

The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP), in paragraph 1 of its decision BS-III/10, requested Parties and urged other Governments to take measures to ensure that existing documentation or documentation required by domest ...

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

19 - 21 October 2009, Montreal, Canada

Invitation of Applications for Support from the Voluntary Fund for the Roster of Experts

Reference: SCBD/BS/ET/CG/jh/68941 (2009-123)
To: National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB-NFPs have not yet been designated)

At its fourth meeting, which was held in Bonn from 12 to 16 May 2008, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety decided to revitalize the pilot phase of the Voluntary Fund for the Roster of Experts and invited developed country Par ...

Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Symposium: Genetically Modified Organisms

22 - 23 September 2009, Ottawa, Canada

Africa Regional Training of Trainers’ Workshop on the Identification and Documentation of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

14 - 18 September 2009, Bamako, Mali

Nominations to the GRULAC Regional Training of Trainers’ Workshop on the Identification and Documentation of Living Modified Organisms under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, National Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico, 23 – 27 November 2009

Reference: SCBD/BS/ET/CG/jh/68825 (2009-115)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points for Latin America and the Caribbean Countries

I am pleased to inform you that the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, with funding support from the Government of Spain and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), is organizing a regional training of trainers’ workshop on the identification and d ...

Fifth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP MOP/5), 11 – 15 October 2010, Nagoya, Japan

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/ar/68463 (2009-106)
To: National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, CBD National Focal Points where Biosafety Focal Points have not yet been nominated

I have the honour to inform you that, at the kind invitation of the Government of Japan, the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP/5) will be held in Nagoya, Japan, from 11 15 October 2010.

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 ...

Pre-Registration for an Online Survey on the Application of and Experience in the Use of Socio-Economic Considerations in Decision-Making on Living Modified Organisms

Reference: SBD/BS/CG/ET/ps/68297 (2009-090)
To: National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB NFP), CBD National Focal Points (where CPB NFPs have not yet been designated) Biosafety Clearing-House National Focal Points (BCH NFP), Relevant organizations

In line with decisions BS-II/12 and BS-IV/16 of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP), the GEF Coordination Division of the United Nations Environment Programme, in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Convention ...

Release of the Sixth Issue of the Biosafety Protocol News

Reference: SCBD/BS/UN/jh/68117 (2009-083)
To: National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety CBD National Focal Points (where CPB National Focal Points have not yet been designated), Biosafety Clearing-House National Focal Points, Relevant Organizations

I am pleased to inform you that the sixth issue of the newsletter on Biosafety entitled Biosafety Protocol News has been posted on the CBD website at the following address: http://www.cbd.int/doc/newsletters/bpn/bpn-06.pdf.

Nominations to the Africa Regional Training of Trainers’ Workshop on the Identification and Documentation of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali, 14 – 18 September 2009

Reference: SCBD/BS/KG/CG/jh/67778 (2009-066)
To: African Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity is organizing a regional training of trainers’ workshop on the identification and documentation of living modified organisms. The workshop will be held at the Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Appliquée ( ...

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 Views on Possible Elements of the Programme of Work on Public Awareness, Education and Participation under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/BS/UN/jh/67565 (2009-055)
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 (BCH) National Focal Points, Relevant Organizations

In order to meet the request by the COP-MOP in a timely manner in the preparation of a synthesis of the views submitted and to develop a draft programme of work for the consideration of the COP-MOP, you are invited to send to the Secretariat your views and suggestions on the possible elements of ...

Online Forum on Paragraph 3 of Article 18 regarding the need for and modalities of developing standards for the Handling, Transport, Packaging and Identification of Living Modified Organisms

18 May - 5 June 2009, Online

Statement by Dr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the First Meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment and Risk Management, 20 – 24 April, 2009 – Montreal, Canada

Meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment and Risk Management under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

20 - 24 April 2009, Montreal, Canada