Notification 2005-110

Dear Madam/Sir, In paragraph 6 of its recommendation X/1, the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) requested the Executive Secretary to compile those supporting actions for the programme of work on island biodiversity included in the drafts considered at its tenth meeting and the suggestions received during that meeting and forward them to the Conference of the Parties at its eighth meeting for its consideration. Please find on the restricted CBD website https://www.biodiv.org/doc/restricted/island the “Draft Proposal for Supporting Actions for the Programme of Work on Island Biodiversity” for your review and comments. This web link also provides access to the following documents: 1) “Compilation of Supporting Actions Proposed at SBSTTA 10 in Bangkok” and 2) “Notes to reviewers explaining how proposals made by the AHTEG and delegates at SBSTTA 10 were merged”. To access the website, you will need to enter the username “XXX” and the password “XXX”. Note that SBSTTA 10 has already adopted columns 1 and 2 of the Draft Proposal. Your comments should only refer to the third column, entitled “Supporting Actions/Means for Parties”. You may wish to suggest changes in wording, deletion of actions unnecessarily repeated and/or moving actions. Please make your comments in a Word file, clearly citing the number of the action to which you refer (e.g., 2.1.2). New actions will not be considered, in accordance with paragraph 6 of SBSTTA recommendation X/1. I would appreciate your input at your earliest convenience, but no later than 5 November 2005. I thank you for your support of the work of the Convention. Please accept, Madam/Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration.

Executive Secretary

To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points and AHTEG members