The Conference of the Parties serving as the
meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
1.Invites
Parties and other Governments to submit to the Executive Secretary
information on actual cases of unintentional transboundary movement
and case studies related to their existing mechanisms for emergency
measures in case of unintentional transboundary movements of living
modified organisms that are likely to have significant adverse
effects on the conservation and sustainable use of biological
diversity, taking also into account risks to human health,
including information on existing rapid alert mechanisms and
monitoring systems;
2.Invites
Parties and other Governments, in the context of operational
objective 1.8 of the Strategic Plan for the Cartagena Protocol on
Biosafety for the period 2011-2020, to submit views on what
constitutes unintentional transboundary movements in contrast with
illegal transboundary movements and what type of information should
be exchanged through the Biosafety Clearing-House;
3.Encourages Parties and other Governments,
without prejudice to Article 21 on confidential information, to
ensure that, for regulatory purposes, the information provided by a
notifier at the time of notification includes all the information
necessary to detect and identify the living modified organism,
including information that allows for its unique identification and
where reference materials may be obtained;
4.Requests the Online Network of Laboratories
for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms
to continue working on issues relevant to the detection and
identification of living modified organisms with a view to
achieving the operational objectives of the Strategic Plan relevant
to the implementation of Article 17;
5.Requests the
Executive Secretary:
(a)To
continue organizing online discussions through the Network of
Laboratories focusing on the detection and identification of living
modified organisms;
(b)To compile
and synthesize the information and case studies submitted by
Parties of their existing mechanisms for emergency measures in case
of unintentional transboundary movements of living modified
organisms;
(c)To create,
in the Biosafety Clearing-House, a system for the easy
identification of notifications relating to unintentional
transboundary movements of living modified organisms within the
context of Article 17, and provide cross-references among the
notifications and relevant detection methods, where
applicable;
(d)To
organize, in cooperation with relevant organizations, subject to
the availability of funds, capacity-building activities such as
online and face-to-face training workshops on sampling, detection
and identification of living modified organisms to assist Parties
in fulfilling the requirements under Article 17 and towards
achieving the relevant outcomes of the Strategic Plan;
(e)To compile
and synthesize information submitted through paragraph 2 above for
consideration by the Compliance Committee at its thirteenth meeting
and, on the basis of this compilation, submit suggested
clarifications on what constitutes an unintentional transboundary
movement in contrast with an illegal transboundary movement.
