What's New

• Report of the Fourth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
• Outcome of COP-MOP 4.
• Suriname accedes to the Protocol on 27 March 2008.
  This brings the number of Parties to 147
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Latest Notifications

Notifications issued by the Secretariat to inform Parties, other stakeholders and the interested public of activities, meetings and events undertaken or requested by the Secretariat pertaining to implementation of the Protocol.

• 2008-074
  Ref.: SCBD/BS/CG/64305
  Date: 27/06/2008
  Subject: Report 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)
  This is to kindly inform you that the report 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) is now made available as document UNEP/CBD/BS/COP-MOP/4/18.
  
   
• 2008-073
  Ref.: SCBD/BCH/GF/ABw/58011
  Date: 10/06/2008
  Subject: Submission of First Regular National Reports
  Reference is made to my earlier notifications with respect to the submission of first regular national reports as called for in the relevant decisions of the Parties to the Protocol made in accordance with Article 33 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety on monitoring and reporting. I would like to draw your attention to my last reminder in this regard (Notification no. SCBD/BCH/CG/ABw/60746, dated 15 November 2007, available at http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2007/ntf-2007-145-bs-en.pdf).
  
   
• 2008-064
  Ref.: SCBD/BS/GF/ABw/63826
  Date: 06/05/2008
  Subject: Translation of the Biosafety Clearing-House into the six official languages of the United Nations
  I am very pleased to announce that the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH) is now accessible in all six of the official languages of the United Nations (i.e. Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish). The translation has been completed for all public pages of the BCH Central Portal (http://bch.cbd.int/). The pages of the BCH Management Centre, only accessible to BCH account-holders to create and manage information, are also expected to be translated, following the revamping of this last section, by the end of 2008.
  
   
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