2025 2025-11-14
| 2025-143 (SCBD/CPU/WM/AMC/MW/92536)
Notification 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 Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-12-19 |
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2025-10-31
| 2025-136 (SCBD/CPU/WM/KG/PD/PS/92517)
Notification to: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, CBD national focal points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), cc: Biosafety Clearing-House national focal points
Submission of information regarding national legislation, regulations and guidelines on new developments in modern biotechnology that are relevant to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-12-08 |
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2025-10-22
| 2025-133 (SCBD/CPU/WM/AMC/MR/MW/92513)
Notification 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 discussions of the Network of Laboratories for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-11-19 |
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2025-10-03
| 2025-124 (SCBD/OES/ASc/IKM/92458)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
Reminder and extension of deadline: Submission of views on options to further improve the effectiveness of meetings under the Convention and its Protocols
Subject(s): Operations of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, Convention on Biological Diversity
Action required by 2025-10-21 |
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2025 2025-09-17
| 2025-116 (SCBD/OES/JL/CE/92467)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, ABS national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points
Online Training Course on Multilateral Negotiations, 2 October 2025
Subject(s): Capacity-building, Conference of the Parties, Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-09-30 |
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2025-09-04
| 2025-112 (SCBD/OES/ASc/IKM/92458)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
Submission of views on options to further improve the effectiveness of meetings under the Convention and its Protocols
Subject(s): Operations of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing, Convention on Biological Diversity
Action required by 2025-10-03 |
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2025-07-22
| 2025-096 (SCBD/OES/OR/FD/92397)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, ABS focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, SBSTTA focal points,
indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
Confirmed dates of the Seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and the Sixth 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
Subject(s): Conference of the Parties, Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety |
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2025-07-08
| 2025-088 (SCBD/CPU/JL/WM/AMC/MW/92264)
Notification 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
Extension of deadline: Submissions of information on synthetic biology to support the preparation of the thematic action plan in the context of synthetic biology and the work of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology
Subject(s): Synthetic Biology, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-08-01 |
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2025-07-07
| 2025-087 (SCBD/CPU/WM/ZJ/AB/92318)
Notification to: National Focal Points for the Cartagena, CBD National Focal Points (where CPB National Focal Points have not yet been designated), BCH National Focal Points, members of the Informal Advisory Committee on the Biosafety Clearing-House, and relevant stakeholders
Composition of the Informal Advisory Committee on the Biosafety Clearing-House
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety |
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2025-06-27
| 2025-085 (SCBD/CPU/WM/AMC/PD/MW/92350)
Notification to: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, CBD national focal points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), cc: Biosafety Clearing-House national focal points
Nomination of experts to the workshop on the detection and identification of living modified organisms and the role of customs officials in implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 22-26 September 2025
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-07-25 |
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2025-06-27
| 2025-084 (SCBD/CPU/WM/UN/92214)
Notification 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: Biosafety Clearing-House national focal points
Online Forum on Capacity-building for Biosafety to support the implementation of the capacity-building action plan for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, 14 - 18 July 2025
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-07-11 |
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2025-06-20
| 2025-081 (SCBD/CPU/WM/AMC/MW/92210)
Notification to: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations, cc: SBSTTA national focal points
Composition of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety |
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2025-05-16
| 2025-070 (SCBD/CPU/WM/AMC/MW/92276)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points, SBSTTA focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
Call for expression of interest for the independent, scientific study on synthetic biology and informal explanatory webinar
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, Synthetic Biology
Action required by 2025-06-13 |
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2025-05-09
| 2025-065 (SCBD/CPU/WM/AMC/MW/92264)
Notification 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
Submissions of information on synthetic biology to support the preparation of the thematic action plan in the context of synthetic biology and the work of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology
Subject(s): Synthetic Biology, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-07-18 |
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2025-05-06
| 2025-063 (SCBD/CPU/WM/MW/92181)
Notification to: Cartagena Protocol national focal points and CBD national focal points (where Cartagena Protocol focal points have not yet been designated), indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
Follow-up to decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety at its eleventh meeting: Overview of requests for action and planned activities for the biennium 2025-2026
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2026-02-28 |
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2025-04-16
| 2025-051 (SCBD/CPU/WM/AMC/MW/92210)
Notification 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 Risk Assessment
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-05-09 |
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2025-03-07
| 2025-029 (SCBD/CPU/WM/AMC/MW/92052)
Notification 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
Nomination of experts to participate in the Open-ended Online Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-04-11 |
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2025-02-25
| 2025-022 (SCBD/CPU/WM/AMC/MW/92049)
Notification to: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, CBD national focal points (where CPB focal points have not yet been designated), cc: Biosafety Clearing-House national focal points
Nomination of experts to the International Training Course on Risk Assessments of Living Modified Organisms, 2-6 June 2025 - Brasilia, Brazil
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-03-29 |
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2025-02-17
| 2025-020 (SCBD/OES/DC/MOC/91979)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, ABS national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points and relevant organizations
On-site registration for the resumed sessions of the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol, and fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol
Subject(s): Conference of the Parties, Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety |
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2025-02-17
| 2025-019 (SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/UN/91973)
Notification to: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, BCH focal points, relevant organizations
Extension of deadline: Invitation to governments and organizations to submit information on implementing or funding biosafety capacity-building activities, and request to Parties to review national records published in BCH
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-03-31 |
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2025-02-14
| 2025-018 (SCBD/IMS/NP/ET/CPa/92053)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, ABS focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points, SBSTTA national focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations
Call for nominations for the Informal Advisory Group on Technical and Scientific Cooperation
Subject(s): Technical and Scientific Cooperation, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-03-07 |
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2025-02-12
| 2025-017 (SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/AMC/MW/92050)
Notification to: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, cc: BCH national focal points
Submission of information on Parties’ needs and priorities related to risk assessment of living modified organisms under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-04-04 |
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2025-02-03
| 2025-008 (SCBD/OES/ASc/92045)
Notification to: Cartagena Protocol focal points
Core Programme Budget of the Cartagena Protocol: Scale of assessments for the apportionment of expenses for 2025 and 2026
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety |
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2025-01-16
| 2025-002 (SCBD/OES/ASc/DC/91979)
Notification to: CBD national focal points, ABS national focal points, Cartagena Protocol focal points
REMINDER NOTIFICATION: Credentials for the resumed sessions of the Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and Fifth 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, 25-27 February 2025 - Rome, Italy
Subject(s): Conference of the Parties, Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety |
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2025-01-03
| 2025-001 (SCBD/CPU/DC/WM/UN/91973)
Notification to: Cartagena Protocol national focal points, BCH focal points, relevant organizations
Invitation to governments and organizations to submit information on implementing or funding biosafety capacity-building activities, and request to Parties to review national records published in BCH
Subject(s): Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Action required by 2025-02-15 |
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