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Calendar of events of the Open-ended Online Expert Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management

What follows is the tentative calendar of events to implement the COP-MOP requests in decision BS-IV/11. Written confirmation of dates will also be mailed to all experts participating in the process.

Title Date Status
Opening of the Online Forum and announcement of the topics and calendar of the discussion groups 6 November 2008
Discussion group on Risk assessment and risk management of transgenic fish 10-30 November 2008
Discussion group on Risk assessment and risk management of transgenic trees 10-30 November 2008
Discussion group on Risk assessment and risk management of transgenic microorganisms and viruses 10-30 November 2008
Discussion group on Risk assessment and risk management of transgenic pharmaplants 10-30 November 2008
Discussion group on Risk assessment and risk management of LMOs with stacked genes or traits 1-19 December 2008
Discussion group on Post-release monitoring and long-term effects of LMOs released into the environment 1-19 December 2008
Discussion group on Risk assessment and risk management of specific receiving environments 1-19 December 2008
Discussion group on Flowchart ("Roadmap") for risk assessment: the necessary steps to conduct risk assessment according to Annex III of the Protocol 1-19 December 2008
Announcement of dates for the 1st Real-time Conferences 19 December 2008
Announcement of location and dates for the 1st meeting of the AHTEG 16 January 2009
1st Real-time Conference for Europe 28 January 2009
1st Real-time Conference for Latin America 3 February 2009
1st Real-time Conference for Africa 10 February 2009
1st Real-time Conference for Asia 17 February 2009
Meeting of the AHTEG on Risk Assessment and Risk Management Montreal, 20-24 April 2009
Announcement of the topics of the discussion groups for input to the work of the AHTEG Sub-working Groups 22 May 2009
Discussion groups for input to the work of the AHTEG Sub-working Groups 22 June - 12 July 2009
Announcement of dates and topics for the next round of online Discussion Groups 23 October 2009
Discussion Groups for further input to the work of the AHTEG Sub-working Groups 23 November - 14 December 2009
Discussion Group on "The way forward for the development of further guidance on RA and RM of LMOs" 7 - 14 December 2009
Announcement of dates for the second round of Real-time conferences and AHTEG meetings 18 December 2009
2nd Real-time Online Conference for Africa 2 February 2010
2nd Real-time Online Conference for Asia and the Pacific 4 February 2010
2nd Real-time Online Conference for for WEOG and CEE 9 February 2010
2nd Real-time Online Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean 11 February 2010
Meeting of the AHTEG Sub-working Groups on RA&RM Ljubljana, 17-18 April 2010 Confirmed
Second Meeting of the AHTEG on Risk Assessment and Risk Management Ljubljana, 19-23 April 2010 Confirmed

   
   
Update on 2010-02-11
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