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Communiqué: Somalia Becomes the 160th Party to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

Communiqué: Uruguay ratifies the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Communiqé: Training Workshop for Government Officials in the Use of the Biosafety Clearing-House Successfully Concluded.

Article 19

Competent National Authorities and National Focal Points

Article 34

Compliance

Compliance Committee under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

14 - 16 March 2005, Montreal, Canada

Composition of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/MA/MW/88425 (2019-119)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, relevant organizations and indigenous peoples and local communities cc: SBSTTA National Focal Points

Composition of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/MW/91069 (2023-078)
To: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, relevant organizations and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA national focal points

Composition of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Socio-economic Considerations (Article 26 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety)

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/MPM/KG/PS/86495 (2017-063)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), relevant organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities

Composition of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Socio-economic Considerations (Article 26 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety)

Reference: SCBD/BS/WDY/ps/83084 (2014-007)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), Relevant international organizations

Composition of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Socio-economic Considerations (Article 26 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety)

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/PD/PS/88246 (2019-088)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), relevant organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities

Composition of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology

Reference: SCBD/CPU/KG/MA/MW/87944 (2019-037)
To: CBD National Focal Points, relevant organizations and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points

Composition of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/MW/90935 (2023-057)
To: CBD national focal points, relevant organizations and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA national focal points, Cartagena Protocol national focal points

Composition of the Informal Advisory Committee on the Biosafety Clearing-House

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/ZJ/AB/90837 (2023-030)
To: National Focal Points for the Cartagena and Nagoya Protocols, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB NFPs have not yet been designated), BCH National Focal Points, members of the Informal Advisory Committee on the Biosafety Clearing-House, and relevant stakeholders

Comprehensive report on synthetic biology discusses impacts on biodiversity and reviews existing regulatory regimes

Montreal, 20 April 2015 – A new report from the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity discusses the potential for synthetic biology to have both positive and negative impacts on biodiversity and looks at the role and adequacy of existing risk assessment and regulatory regimes to ...

Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Stockholm Convention on Persistant Organic Polluants

22 - 23 May 2001, Stockholm, Sweden

Article 29

Conference of the Parties Serving as the Meeting of the Parties to this Protocol

Article 21

Confidential Information

Consultation and Information Briefing on a Draft Outline of a new gender plan of action

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/JS/TM/89017 (2020-055)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, UN Organizations and Specialized Agencies, IGOs, NGOs, and indigenous people and local communities, and other stakeholders

Consultation on an updated draft outline of a new gender plan of action

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/TMc/TM/89456 (2021-014)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, UN Organizations and Specialized Agencies, IGOs, NGOs, indigenous people and local communities, and other stakeholders

Consultations on the establishment of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Fund by the Global Environment Facility

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/YX/GT/90953 (2023-041)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points

Contact information of competent authority to perform the functions set out in Article 5 of the Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/KG/PD/PS/90031 (2021-083)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where Cartagena Protocol Focal Points have not yet been designated), BCH Focal Points

Coordination meeting for governments and organizations implementing or funding biosafety capacity-building activities

26 - 27 January 2005, Montreal, Canada

Coordination meeting for representatives of academic institutions actively involved in education and training programmes in biosafety (organized by SAEFL in collaboration with the CBD Secretariat)

4 - 6 October 2004, Geneva, Switzerland

Core Programme Budget of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Scale of assessment for the apportionment of expenses for 2022

Reference: SCBD/OES/EM/DC/GF/87910 (2022-004)
To: Cartagena Protocol Focal Points

Core programme budget for the Cartagena Protocol : Scale of assessment for the apportionment of expenses for 2019 and 2020

Reference: SCBD/CPP/DC/GF/87912 (2019-016)
To: Cartagena Protocol Focal Points

Council of FAO (123rd Session)

28 October - 2 November 2002, Rome, Italy

Countdown begins for entry into force of Biosafety Protocol<br>Republic of Palau becomes the 50th country to ratify

Montreal, June 13 2003 –Ratification today by Palau triggers the countdown to the entry into force of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, the first legally binding international agreement governing the movement of living modified organisms across national borders. It will take effect on 11 Sept ...

Credentials for the Sixth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 6), 1-5 October 2012, Hyderabad, India

Reference: SCBD/SEL/LG/lb/80674 (2012-116)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety Focal Points

Credentials for the Thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 13), Eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 8), and Second meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (COP-MOP 2), 4 –17 December 2016 - Cancun, Mexico

Reference: SCBD/OES/BD/WDY/moc/85810 (2016-085)
To: CBD, ABS and CPB National Focal Points

Cristiana Paşca Palmer assumes position as Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity

20 March 2017 – Cristiana Paşca Palmer today assumed office as the new Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the principal global treaty on biodiversity.

Cyprus becomes seventy-second signatory of the Nagoya Protocol and the thirty-seventh signatory of the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress

Montreal, 5 January 2012 – Cyprus, on 29 December 2011, became the seventy-second signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the thirty-seventh signato ...

Cyprus, on 29 December 2011, became the seventy-second signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the thirty-seventh signatory of the Nagoya Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

Date and venue of the UN Biodiversity Conference 2018

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/DC/86703 (2017-075)
To: All CBD, CPB and ABS Focal Points and relevant organizations

Dates and Venue of the Seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and Twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Reference: SCBD/OES/BD/AR/81752 (2013-035)
To: All CBD, CPB focal points, International Organizations

Dates and venue of the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP/MOP-4) and the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention (COP-9).

Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/LB/56287 (2006-117)
To: CBD National Focal Points CPB Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention will be held in Bonn, Germany, respectively, on 12-16 May and ...

Dates and venues of COP 13 to the Convention on Biological Diversity, COP-MOP 8 to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and COP-MOP 2 to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing, and other upcoming meetings

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/AC/84220 (2015-003)
To: All CBD, CPB and Nagoya Protocol Focal Points and International Organizations

Dates of the Intersessional Meetings of the Convention on Biological Diversity for the biennium 2019-2020

Reference: SCBD/OES/CPP/DC/87949 (2019-026)
To: All CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, Traditional Knowledge Focal Points, and relevant organizations and stakeholders

Decision 14/23, Financial Mechanism: Assessment of Funding Needs for the Implementation of the Convention and its Protocols for the Eighth Replenishment Period (July 2022 to June 2026) of the Trust Fund of the Global Environment Facility

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/NP/YX/88707 (2021-048)
To: National Focal Points of CBD, Cartagena Protocol and ABS

Article 10

Decision Procedure

Decisions of the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP/4) requesting action from Parties and other Governments

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/jh/64396 (2008-078)
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 26 June 2008, SCBD/BS/CG/jh/64305, informing Parties of the availability of the final report of the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety held in Bonn, Germany, 12 ...

Decisions of the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP/4) requesting action from relevant organizations

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/jh/64414 (2008-086)
To: Relevant organizations

At its fourth meeting, held from 12 to 16 May 2008 in Bonn, Germany, the COP-MOP adopted a number of decisions requesting action from relevant organizations engaged in the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety process for their consideration. Please find attached herewith a summary list of the reques ...

Decisions of the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP/7) addressed directly to Parties and other Governments

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/mw/84108 (2014-131)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National Focal Poins, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated)

Decisions of the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP/6) addressed directly to Parties and other Governments

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/jh/81084 (2012-149)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated)

Denmark’s ratification edges the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress closer to entry into force

Montreal, 9 March 2015 – With Denmark’s ratification on 25 February, the Nagoya–Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety has received 75% of the necessary ratifications, with only 11 more ratifications needed for it to enter into force.

Detection and identification of living modified organisms: submission of information and nomination of experts

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/MM/DA/87054 (2017-141)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated) and Relevant Organizations, cc: Biosafety Clearing-House National Focal Points

Detection of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in Food and Feed

2 - 6 October 2000, Trieste, Italy

Directory of Biosafety Organizations – Biosafety Clearing-

Reference: SCBD/BCH/KGM/55789 (2006-094)
To: To: BCH National Focal Points Cc: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points (or CBD Focal Points where Biosafety Focal Points have not yet been nominated) Relevant Organizations

I am pleased to present a new Directory of Organizations active in biosafety issues, now accessible through the Biosafety Clearing-House. The Directory of Biosafety Organizations is available on-line in the "information sharing" section of the BCH at <a href="http://bch.biodiv.org/informationsha ...

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