Decision COP VII/10

6.Encourages Parties to nominate focal points for the Strategy, or designate from among existing focal points, in order to:

(a) Promote and facilitate implementation and monitoring of the Strategy at national level, including the identification of national targets and their integration in national biodiversity strategies and action plans and sectoral and cross-sectoral plans programmes and activities; 

(b) Promote the participation of national stakeholders in the implementation and monitoring of the Strategy at national level; and 

(c) Facilitate communication between national stakeholders and the Secretariat and Global Partnership for Plant Conservation;

8.Decides to integrate the targets of the Strategy into all the thematic and relevant cross-cutting programmes of work of the Convention and requests the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice to prepare proposals for the respective programmes of work when they are due for review according to the multi year programme of work of the Conference of the Parties (decision VII/31). This process should be consistent with decision VII/30.  In particular, the following targets should be integrated:

(a)Target 1 into the Global Taxonomy Initiative; 

(b)Targets 4 and 5, 7 and 8 into the programme of work on protected areas; 

(c)Target 10 into work on invasive alien species; 

(d)Targets 11, 12 and 13 in the work on sustainable use; 

(e)Targets 9 and 13 into work on Article 8(j) and related provisions; 

(f)Target 14 into the programme for communication, education and public awareness; and 

(g)Targets 6, 9 and 12 into the thematic programmes for agricultural biodiversity and forest biodiversity;