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Nomination of Experts to the Workshop of the Network of Laboratories for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms, Ispra, Italy, 25 – 27 November 2013

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/MM/DA/82651 (2013-082)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), BCH National Focal Points and Relevant Organizations

Nomination of Experts to the Workshop of the Network of Laboratories for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms, Ispra, Italy, 9-11 June 2015

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/MPM/DA/84400 (2015-026)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), BCH National Focal Points and Relevant Organizations

Nomination of Experts to the Workshop on Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms for Francophone Africa, Tunis, Tunisia, 5-9 March 2018

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/MM/DA/86969 (2017-118)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points of the Francophone Africa region, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated) and Relevant Organizations, cc: Biosafety Clearing-House National Focal Points of the Francophone Africa region

Nomination of Experts to the Workshop on Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms for Francophone Africa, Tunis, Tunisia, 5-9 March 2018

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/MM/DA/86969 (2017-137)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points of the Francophone Africa region, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated) and Relevant Organizations, cc: Biosafety Clearing-House National Focal Points of the Francophone Africa region

Nomination of experts for a technical meeting on indicators for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework

Reference: SCBD/IMS/JMF/JC/KM/90243 (2022-019)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA National Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Nomination of experts for the Online Discussion on Biosafety Commitments from Non-State Actors for the Action Agenda for Nature and People

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/UN/89800 (2021-054)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where Cartagena Protocol Focal Points have not yet been designated), BCH Focal Points, relevant organizations and indigenous peoples and local communities

Nomination of experts for the ad hoc technical expert group on indicators for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JC/KM/90718 (2023-001)
To: CBD Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

Nomination of experts to participate in the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/MW/91069 (2023-059)
To: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, relevant organizations and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: CBD national focal points, BCH national focal points, SBSTTA national focal points

Nomination of experts to participate in 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 (2019-068)
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

Nomination of experts to participate in the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Socio-Economic Considerations and submission of information (Article 26 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety)

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/MPM/KG/PD/PS/86495 (2017-039)
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

Nomination of experts to participate in the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Socio-Economic Considerations and submission of information (Article 26 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety)

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/MPM/KG/PD/PS/86495 (2017-046)
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

Nomination of experts to participate in the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/MPM/DA/86613 (2017-048)
To: CBD National Focal Points, cc: SBSTTA National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, Nagoya Protocol Focal Points

Nomination of experts to participate in the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology

Reference: SCBD/CPU/KG/MA/MW/87944 (2019-023)
To: CBD National Focal Points, relevant organizations and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points

Nomination of experts to participate in the Open-ended Online Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management and the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/MA/MW/88425 (2019-095)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, relevant organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points

Nomination of experts to participate in the multidisciplinary Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/MW/90935 (2023-034)
To: CBD National Focal Points, relevant organizations and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points

Nomination of experts to the Open-ended Online Expert Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/BS/MPM/DA/83988 (2014-125)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, Biosafety Clearing-House National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), Relevant Organizations

Nomination of experts to the Open-ended Online Expert Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/BS/MPM/DA/83988 (2014-133)
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), Relevant Organizations

Nomination of experts to the Open-ended Online Forum on Synthetic Biology (action required by 31 March 2015)

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/MPM/DA/84355 (2015-019)
To: CBD National Focal Points; relevant organizations; and indigenous people and local communities cc: SBSTTA National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, Nagoya Protocol Focal Point

In decision XII/24 , the Conference of the Parties established an Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Synthetic Biology with terms of reference contained in the annex to the decision, and requested the Executive Secretary to convene a moderated open-ended online forum to support the work of ...

Nomination of experts to the Workshop on the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms, Mexico City, Mexico, 15-19 August 2016

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/MPM/DA/85535 (2016-042)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points and CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated) of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and relevant organizations

Nomination of participants to the Workshop on Border Control of Living Modified Organisms and Invasive Alien Species, Nadi, Fiji, 7-11 December 2015

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/MPM/DA/84972 (2015-100)
To: CBD National Focal Points and Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points of: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, relevant organizations

Nomination of participants to the Workshop on Border Control of Living Modified Organisms and Invasive Alien Species, Nadi, Fiji, 7-11 December 2015

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG[MPM/DAJ84972 (2015-114)
To: CBD National Focal Points and Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points of: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue. Palau. Papua New Guinea. Samoa, Solomon Islands. Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, relevant organizations

Nomination of participants to the workshop on developing capacity for national border controls of living modified organisms in Small Island Developing States in the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago, 17-19 October 2016

Reference: SCBD/SPS/CG/MPM/PD/ps/85817 (2016-088)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points of Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and relevant organizations.

Nomination of participants to the workshop on developing capacity for national border controls on living modified organisms in Small Island Developing States in the Pacific, Suva, Fiji, 27-29 March 2017

Reference: SCBD/SPS/MPM/PD/ps/86212 (2017-004)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points of Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu and relevant organizations

Nomination of participants to the workshop on developing capacity for national border controls on living modified organisms in Small Island Developing States in the Pacific, Suva, Fiji, 27-29 March 2017

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/MPM/PD/ps/86212 (2017-010)
To: CPB National Focal Points and CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated) of Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu

Nominations for the Africa Regional Capacity-Building Workshop on Mainstreaming Biosafety into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – 9-12 February 2016

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/ET/mw/85233 (2015-143)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points for: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, cc: CBD National Focal Points

Nominations for the Africa Regional Workshop on strengthening capacities for the integrated implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress and the Convention on Biological Diversity, Lilongwe, Malawi - 19-23 February 2018

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/JSH/PD/MW/87010 (2017-132)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points and CBD National Focal Points from the Africa region

Nominations for the Asia Regional Capacity-Building Workshop on Mainstreaming Biosafety into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans and Resource Mobilization, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia – 9-13 February 2015

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/ET/mw/84183 (2014-139)
To: CBD National Focal Points for: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, DPR Korea, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam, cc: National Focal Points for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Nominations for the Asia Sub Regional Workshop on strengthening capacities for the integrated implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress and the Convention on Biological Diversity, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 6-10 November 2017

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/MPM/KG/PD/PS/86714 (2017-073)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points and CBD National Focal Points from the Asia sub-region

Nominations for the Caribbean Sub-regional Capacity-Building Workshop on Mainstreaming Biosafety into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans and Resource Mobilization, Bridgetown, Barbados – 1-5 December 2014

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/ET/ps/84000 (2014-126)
To: CBD National Focal Points for: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago, cc: National Focal Points for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Nominations for the Caribbean Sub-regional Capacity-Building Workshop on Mainstreaming Biosafety into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans and Resource Mobilization, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, 9-13 March 2015

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/ET/ps/84000 (2015-011)
To: CBD National Focal Points for: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago, cc: National Focal Points for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Nominations for the Latin America Sub-regional Capacity-Building Workshop on Mainstreaming Biosafety into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans and Resource Mobilization, Montevideo, Uruguay – 8-12 December 2014

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/ET/ps/84058 (2014-124)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points for: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela cc: National Focal Points for the Convention on Biological Diversity

Nominations for the Regional Workshop for Latin America and the Caribbean on strengthening capacities for the integrated implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress and the Convention on Biological Diversity, 19-23 March 2018 – Mexico City, Mexico

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/MPM/KG/PD/PS/87067 (2017-143)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points and CBD National Focal Points from Latin America and the Caribbean

Nominations for the West Asia and North Africa Sub-regional Capacity-Building Workshop on Mainstreaming Biosafety into National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans and Resource Mobilisation Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 16 – 20 November 2014

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/ET/MAC/83958 (2014-121)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points for Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Yemen

Nominations of observers to the Open-ended Online Expert Forum and Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment and Risk Management under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/BS/MPDM/ABw/65142 (2008-128)
To: Relevant Organizations

I am pleased to invite you to nominate experts from your organization who are actively involved in risk assessment and risk management, to participate as observers in this Open-ended Online Expert Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management.

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 ( ...

Nominations to the Asia sub-regional Training of Trainers’ Workshop on the Identification and Documentation of Living Modified Organisms under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, New Delhi, India, 21 – 25 November 2011

Reference: SCBD/BS/KG/CG/jh/77490 (2011-168)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points for Asian Countries

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 for the Asia sub-region. The workshop will be held in New Delhi, India, from 21 t ...

Nominations to the Central and Eastern European Regional Training of Trainers’ Workshop on the Identification and Documentation of Living Modified Organisms under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 11 – 15 April 2011

Reference: SCBD/BS/KG/CG/jh/75023 (2011-036)
To: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Points, for Central and Eastern European Countries

I am pleased to inform you that the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, with funding support from the European Union, is organizing a regional training of trainers’ workshop on the identification and documentation of living modified organisms for the Central and Eastern Europe ...

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 ...

Nominations to the Open-ended Online Expert Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/BS/MPDM/ABw/64638 (2008-110)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, c.c.: Biosafety Clearing-House National Focal Points

At its fourth meeting, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (COP-MOP) established an open-ended online forum on specific aspects of risk assessment through the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH) as well as an Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Ris ...

Nominations to the Open-ended Online Expert Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/BS/MPDM/ABw/64638R (2008-134)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CC: Biosafety Clearing-House National Focal Points

Further to my notification reference, SCBD/BS/MPDM/ABw/64638 dated 5 September 2008, I am pleased to inform you that the deadline for nomination of experts to the Open-ended Online Expert Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management has been extended to 31 October 2008.

Notification

Reference: SCBD/OES/AD/moc/60475 (2007-127)
To: All National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, CBD National Focal Points where Biosafety Focal Points have not yet been nominated

I am pleased to inform you that the Minutes of the first meeting of the Bureau of COP-MOP3, held in Montreal at the headquarters of the Secretariat, are available at the Convention’s website: <a href='http://www.cbd.int/doc/meetings/cop-mop-bureau/cop-mop-bur-2007-10-14-en.pdf'>http://www.cbd.in ...

Offline version of the Biosafety Clearing House.

Reference: SCBD/BCH/ET/ABw/55988 (2006-124)
To: BCH National Focal Points Cc: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points (or CBD Focal Points where Biosafety Focal Points have not yet been nominated)

Pursuant to paragraph 15 of decision BS-III/2 on the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH), which was taken by the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (COP-MOP), I am pleased to announce that the Secretariat has produced a new offline ver ...

Online Forum on Strategic Approaches to Capacity-building for Biosafety and the Comprehensive Review of the Capacity-Building Action Plan

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/ET/jh/78936 (2012-026)
To: National Focal Points for the Cartagena Protocol of Biosafety (CPB-NFPs); CBD National Focal Points where CPB-NFPs have not yet been designated; and Relevant Organizations

Online Workshop: The financial sector and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, 17 and 18 June 2021

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/ML/OC/GD/89438 (2021-029)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Resource Mobilization National Focal Points, financial sector representatives, businesses, UN agencies, IGOs, NGOs and other relevant international stakeholders

Online discussions of the Open-Ended Online Forum on Risk Assessment under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/MW/91172 (2023-079)
To: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, CBD national focal points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), relevant organizations, and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA National Focal Points

Online discussions of the Open-ended Online Forum on Synthetic Biology

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/MW/91337 (2023-115)
To: CBD national focal points, relevant organizations, and indigenous peoples and local communities, cc: SBSTTA national focal points, Cartagena Protocol national focal points, ABS Protocol focal points

Online format for submission of the fourth national report on the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/AB/87939 (2019-055)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB Focal Points have not yet been designated), BCH Focal Points

Online forum of the Network of Laboratories for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/AMC/MW/91278 (2023-099)
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

Online information on risk assessment of living modified organisms in preparation for the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol

Reference: SCBD/BS/CG/MM/jh/73795 (2010-177)
To: National Focal Points to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB NFPs have not yet been designated), BCH National Focal Point, Relevant Organizations

I am pleased to inform you that the Guidance on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms, which was developed by the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Risk Assessment and Risk Management and made available as annex III of document UNEP/CBD/BS/COP-MOP/5/12, is now also available online ...

Open-ended online discussions on the post-2020 Implementation Plan for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Reference: SCBD/CPU/DC/KG/PD/PS/88111 (2019-044)
To: Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations