Tentative Calendar of Activities - Online Forum and AHTEG RA&RM

At its last meeting, the AHTEG adopted the following tentative work plan for 2015-2016 to achieve the outcomes set out in decision BS-VII/12.

Each activity in the table below corresponds to a larger task as follows:

	I. Further improvements to the Guidance based on the results of the testing
	II. Integration of new topics into the Roadmap (as boxes or in line with the existing text)
	III. Revisions to the background documents
	IV. Outline of further guidance on RA of LM fish
	V. Outline of further guidance on RA of LMOs from synthetic biology (pending the outcomes of SBSTTA in April 2016)

Timeframe	Main Actor(s)	Task	Activity	Status
21 – 31 Dec 2015	SCBD	III	Propose new places in the Guidance where background documents could be linked	Completed
18 – 25 Jan 2016	AHTEG	III	Online discussion to evaluate proposed new places in the Guidance to link background docs	Confirmed
18 Jan – 4 Apr 2016	AHTEG Sub-group (With regards to the addition of examples, the AHTEG Sub-group will be assisted by Ruth Rupreht, Chan Kok Gan and Stacy Scott)	I	Address remaining comments from the testing under categories E, D and B	Completed
25 Jan – 31 Mar 2016	SCBD	III	Index background documents according to authorship, propose revisions as to where the documents would be linked to the Guidance, and flag documents that are not directly relevant to any section of the Guidance	Completed
1 – 15 Feb 2016	Online Forum & AHTEG	II	Submission of views, relevant guidance and sources of information on (i) centres of origin, genetic diversity and unmanaged ecosystems, (ii) human health, (iii) RNAi and dsRNA, (iv) synergistic effects of herbicides part of LMO technology packages	Completed
18 Feb – 4 Apr 2016	AHTEG Sub-group	II	Develop boxes to integrate topics of (i) centres of origin, genetic diversity and unmanaged ecosystems, (ii) human health, (iii) RNAi and dsRNA, (iv) synergistic effects of herbicides part of LMO technology packages	Completed
22 Feb - 7 Mar 2016	Online Forum & AHTEG	IV	Submission of views, relevant guidance and sources of information on LM fish	Completed
7 – 28 Mar 2016	Janne Øvrebø Bohnhorst, Wadzanayi Mandivenyi, Hrvoje Fulgosi and Ossama AbdelKawy	IV	Development of an outline for further guidance on risk assessment of LM fish	Completed
7 Mar – 4 Apr 2016	SCBD	I	Take into account remaining comments from the testing under category C (editorial) that are not linked to translation	Completed
11 – 18 Apr 2016	Online Forum & AHTEG	IV	Online discussion to review and provide feedback on the outline for further guidance on risk assessment of LM fish	Completed
25 Apr – 9 May 2016	Online Forum & AHTEG	I & II	Online discussion to review proposed revisions to the Guidance	Completed
Apr – Aug 2016	AHTEG	III	Revalidation and review of the proposals by the Secretariat with regard to background documents	Tentative
9 May – 13 Jun 2016	AHTEG Sub-group	I & II	Further revisions of the Guidance based on feedback from online discussion	Completed
9 – 23 May 2016	Online Forum & AHTEG	V	Submission of views, relevant guidance and sources of information on risk assessment of organisms developed through synthetic biology	Completed
23 – 30 May 2016	Maria Mercedes Roca, Ruth Rupreht, Wei Wei, Hari Sharma, Chan Kok Gan, Nobuyuki Fujita, Esmeralda Prat and Jack Heineman	V	Development of an outline on risk assessment of LMOs developed through techniques of synthetic biology	Completed
6 – 20 Jun 2016	Janne Øvrebø Bohnhorst, Wadzanayi Mandivenyi, Hrvoje Fulgosi and Ossama AbdelKawy	IV	Revision of the outline for further guidance on risk assessment of LM fish based on feedback from online discussion	Completed
13 – 27 Jun 2016	Online Forum & AHTEG	V	Online discussion to review and provide feedback on the outline for further guidance on risk assessment of LMOs developed through techniques of synthetic biology	Completed
25 – 29 Jul 2016	AHTEG	All	Face-to-face meeting of the AHTEG, Mexico City, Mexico	Completed
Sep 2016	SCBD	All	Publication of the report of the AHTEG & Revised Guidance (in English)	Confirmed
1 – 15 Aug 2015	SCBD	All	Translation of the Guidance to all UN languages	Tentative
15 Aug – 15 Sep 2016	SCBD and appropriate AHTEG members	All	Take into account remaining issues under category C (editorial) that are related to translation	Tentative
Sep 2016	SCBD	All	Publication of the Revised Guidance (in all UN languages)	Tentative
4 – 17 Dec 2016	Parties, other Governments and Organizations	All	Eighth meeting of the COP-MOP, Cancun, Mexico	Confirmed

Past calendar of activities of the Online Forum and AHTEG to revise and improve the guidance (2014-2015)

Activities	Main Actors	Timeframe	Status
Notification inviting Parties, other Governments and relevant organizations to confirm the nominations of their experts who are currently participating in the Online Forum on risk assessment and risk management and nominate additional experts to join the Online Forum using the format for the nomination of experts to the Roster of Experts	Secretariat	20 October 2014	Completed
Confirmation of existing experts and nomination of new experts to the Online Forum	Parties, other Governments and relevant organizations	20 October – 20 November 2014	Completed
Removing records of experts whose nominations were not confirmed	Secretariat	20 November – 5 December 2014	Completed
Expanding the composition of the AHTEG to add one new member from each region from among the experts registered in the Online Forum	Secretariat in consultation with the Bureau	20 November – 20 December 2014	Completed
Grouping of the original comments provided through the testing of the Guidance into matrices	Secretariat	5 – 31 January 2015	Completed
Feedback on the grouping of comments done by the Secretariat and way forward	AHTEG	16 February – 2 March 2015	Completed
Reviewing the grouping of comments done by the Secretariat and revising it as needed	AHTEG Sub-group	9 – 23 March 2015	Completed
Identifying which general issues highlighted in the testing of the Guidance may be incorporated or improved upon, as well as whether or not any of the topics prioritized by the previous AHTEG for additional guidance could also be incorporated during the revision process	AHTEG Sub-group	30 March – 13 April 2015	Completed
Feedback on the general issues identified by the AHTEG Sub-group that may be incorporated or improved in Guidance	Online Forum & AHTEG	27 April – 11 May 2015	Completed
Streamlining which suggestions for changes provided through the testing of the Guidance will be taken onboard during the revision of the Guidance, and providing a justification for each of the suggestions that will not be taken on board	AHTEG Sub-group	25 May – 22 June 2015	Completed
Taking stock of the progress and challenges encountered by the AHTEG Sub-group	AHTEG	11 - 18 July 2015	Completed
Drafting proposals to address editorial changes	Secretariat	July – September 2015	Completed
Drafting proposals to address substantive changes	AHTEG Sub-group	July – September 2015	Completed
Face-to-face meeting of the AHTEG to draft a revised version of the Guidance	AHTEG	16-20 November 2015	Completed

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