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Past Activities
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Workshops
The Biosafety Unit of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity has organized a number of capacity-building workshops on the Identification and Documentation of Living Modified Organisms. Workshop documents are available through the links below.
Workshops for Small Island Developing States
Sub-regional workshop on developing capacity for national border controls on living modified organisms in
Pacific small island developing States
in Suva, Fiji, 27-29 March 2017.
Online discussion
by participants to the workshop.
Workshop on developing capacity for national border controls on living modified organisms in
small island developing States in the Caribbean
in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, 17-19 October 2016.
Online discussion
by participants to the workshop.
Regional workshops
Additional documents for the following workshops are provided further below:
The
Asia
sub-regional Training of Trainers' Workshop on the Identification and Documentation of Living Modified Organisms under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
in New Delhi, India, 21-25 November 2011.
The
Central and Eastern European
Regional Training of Trainers' Workshop on the Identification and Documentation of Living Modified Organisms under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 11-15 April 2011.
The
Latin America and the Caribbean
Regional Training of Trainers' Workshop on the Identification and Documentation of Living Modified Organisms under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
in Mexico City, November 2009.
Africa
Regional Training of Trainers’ Workshop on the Identification and Documentation of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
in Bamako, Mali, 14-18 September 2009
Other materials
Resource materials
News items
Documents from the New Delhi workshop, 21-25 November 2011
Official documents
for the workshop.
Introduction to the Protocol and its elements relating to the identification and documentation requirements for shipments of living modified organisms:
Video on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety -
YouTube
Introduction to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety -
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Introduction to the Identification & Documentation requirements of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety -
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The role of customs and border control officials in implementing the Protocol:
The role of customs officers in implementing the Protocol -
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The role of the Biosafety Clearing-House in facilitating the implementation of the identification and documentation requirements -
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National experiences with transboundary movements of living modified organisms:
Indonesia -
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Laos -
pdf
Malaysia -
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Philippines -
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Sri Lanka -
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Syrian Arab Republic -
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Thailand -
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Vietnam -
pdf
Appendices to Vietnam Decree No. 69/2010/ND-CP -
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Documentation accompanying shipments of living modified organisms: case studies on existing documentation systems:
International Grain Trade Coalition -
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LMO Quick-links -
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Sampling, detecting and identifying living modified organisms
Introduction to biotechnology -
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Sampling methodology
Presentation by Dr. Singh -
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Presentation by Dr. Randhawa -
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Detection and Identification of living modified organisms
Presentation by Dr. Siva Reddy -
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Presentation by Dr. Randhawa -
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CropLife International Detection Methods Database -
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Experiences of the Green Customs Initiative:
Video on the Green Customs Initiative - YouTube:
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Introduction to the Green Customs Initiative -
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INTERPOL's Environmental Crime Programme -
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Documents from the Ljubljana workshop, 11-15 April 2011
Official documents
for the workshop.
Online discussion
for Customs Officials from Central and Eastern Europe.
Announcement
from the National Institute of Biology.
Introduction to the Protocol and its elements relating to the identification and documentation requirements for shipments of living modified organisms:
Video on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety -
YouTube
Introduction to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety -
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Introduction to the Identification & Documentation requirements of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety -
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The role of customs and border control officials in implementing the Protocol:
The role of customs officers in implementing the Protocol -
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The role of the Biosafety Clearing-House in facilitating the implementation of the identification and documentation requirements -
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National experiences with transboundary movements of living modified organisms
Documentation accompanying shipments of living modified organisms: case studies on existing documentation systems:
International Grain Trade Coalition -
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Sampling, detecting and identifying living modified organisms
European Network of GMO Laboratories -
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Sampling methodology -
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Detection and Identification of living modified organisms -
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Interpreting the results from detection and identification
Field study visit
The Green Customs Initiative
The way forward: next steps for continued collaboration and exchange of information
Documents from the Mexico City workshop, 23-27 November 2009
Official documents
from the workshop in English and Spanish.
Introduction to the Protocol and its elements relating to the identification and documentation requirements for shipments of living modified organisms:
Introduction to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
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Introduction to the Identification & Documentation requirements of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
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The role of customs officials in implementing the Protocol:
The role of customs officers in implementing the Protocol
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National experiences with transboundary movements of living modified organisms:
Bahamas:
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Belize:
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Chile:
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Colombia: Word document
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Costa Rica: Word document
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Dominican Republic:
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Ecuador:
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El Salvador:
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Grenada:
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Guatemala:
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Honduras:
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Mexico:
Estado actual del proceso de importación y exportación de organismos genéticamente modificados
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Estado actual sobre la detección, documentación y autorización de organismos vivos modificados
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Panama:
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St. Kitts and Nevis:
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Venezuela:
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Documentation accompanying shipments of living modified organisms: case studies on existing documentation systems:
International Grain Trade Coalition
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Sampling and detection of living modified organisms:
Sampling and detection of LMOs
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Identification of LMOs
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Laboratory protocol for ELISA test
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Laboratory protocol for strip test
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The way forward: next steps for continued collaboration and exchange of information - Action plans:
Caribbean countries
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Spanish-speaking countries
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Documents from the Bamako workshop, 14-18 September 2009
Under development
Official documents
from the workshop in English and French.
Introduction to the Protocol and its elements relating to the identification and documentation requirements for shipments of living modified organisms:
Introduction to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
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Introduction to the Identification & Documentation requirements of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
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The role of customs officials in implementing the Protocol:
The role of customs officers in implementing the Protocol
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National experiences with transboundary movements of living modified organisms:
Under development
Documentation accompanying shipments of living modified organisms: case studies on existing documentation systems:
International Grain Trade Coalition
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Sampling and detection of living modified organisms:
What is an LMO?
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Types of LMOs
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GM detection and sampling
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Detection methods
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Reporting
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The way forward: next steps for continued collaboration and exchange of information - Action plans:
Under development
Resource materials
From the BCH Online Help
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Using the BCH for Customs and Border Control Tasks:
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Case 7: Custom officer seeks information on importing LMOs:
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Case 28 Principal Custom officer looks for relevant CPB articles, COP-MOP decisions and capacity building opportunities:
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Case 29 Customs officer looks for laboratories for detection and identification of LMOs:
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Case 30 Customs or border control officer looks for unapproved soybean events:
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Case 31 Phytosanitary officer looks for maize stacked events:
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Curricula for customs and border control:
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Curricula for phytosanitary officers:
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Other resource materials
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Biosafety Technical Series Issue 1: Standards for Shipments of Living Modified Organisms: Outcomes of an Online Forum
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Green Customs Guide to Multilateral Environmental Agreements
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Handling, Transport, Packaging and Identification of Living Modified Organisms: Synthesis of information on experience gained with the use of sampling of living modified organisms and detection techniques and on the need for and modalities of developing criteria for acceptability of, and harmonizing, sampling and detection techniques (Paragraph 2(a) of Article 18), document prepared for the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
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COP-MOP 3 decision BS-III/10: Handling, transport, packaging and identification of living modified organisms: paragraph 2 (a) of Article 18
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COP-MOP 1 decision BS-I/6: Handling, transport, packaging and identification of living modified organisms (Article 18)
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News items
Senegal - Cérémonie officielle de réception d'équipements pour le laboratoire national de biosécurité du Sénégal sur financement du Programme Régional de Biosécurité de l'UEMOA (PRB UEMOA)
(BCH news item, 12 April 2012)
Togo - Atelier de renforcement des capacités en matière de biosécurité des Etats membres de l'UEMOA : méthodes de détection / identification des OGMs
(BCH news item, 12 November 2011)
FAST seed-testing network for Africa
(FAO press release, 28 April 2011)
UNEP convenes Green Customs meeting
(UNEP press release, 17 February 2011)
BPI opens P3.1-M facility to test GMOs, ensure safety
(Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation, 18 December 2009)
Strengthen GMO detection capacity, SADC urged
(The Herald, 26 November 2009)
‘Non-GMO’ Seal Identifies Foods Mostly Biotech-Free
(New York Times, 28 August 2009)
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