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Guiding questions
The following questions were prepared to assist the discussions on this topic.
- Is there a need for further development of guidance on risk assessment and risk management of LMOs?
- If a need for further development of guidance exists, what kind of process(es) could be considered for addressing this need?
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Overview of the topic
At its fourth meeting, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (COP-MOP) considered the need for further guidance on specific aspects of risk assessment and risk management, and the appropriate modalities for development of any such guidance (see
decision BS-IV/11).
To address the need for further guidance, the Parties established an Open-ended Online Expert Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management and an Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Risk Assessment and Risk Management.
The Executive Secretary was requested to convene
ad hoc online discussion groups, two AHTEG meetings and at least one real-time online conference per region prior to each of the two AHTEG meetings. To operationalize these requests, the Secretariat implemented a continuous process comprising the following events: a) the establishment of an open-ended online forum, b) discussion groups on specific topics, c) two series of sub-regional real-time conferences (one series prior to each AHTEG meeting), and d) two AHTEG meetings.
The second meeting of the AHTEG and last event in this process will take place in April 2010. The outcomes of this process will be submitted to the fifth meeting of the COP-MOP in October 2010.
This Discussion Group provides the experts of the Open-ended Online Forum with an opportunity to identify if there is a need for further development of guidance materials on specific topics of risk assessment and/or risk management to continue after the fifth meeting of the COP-MOP. Moreover, if such need exists, this discussion may include recommendations on processes to address this need.
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