BCH on BCH Forum

Dear colleagues,

In its decision CP-VIII/2, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol requested the Executive Secretary to undertake a number of tasks related to the BCH, including carrying out its full migration to its new platform and sending to the BCH focal points a chronogram detailing the migration and follow-up processes.

In response to the request in decision CP-VIII/2, paragraph 8(c), the Secretariat prepared a chronogram outlining the timeline for the migration of the BCH to its new platform and follow-up processes. The chronogram was shared with national focal points for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the BCH through notification 2019-063 issued on 25 July 2019 and was made available on the home page of the old BCH platform.

The new BCH platform went officially live on 29 November 2021.

In its decision CP-10/5, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol welcomed the migration of the central portal of the Biosafety Clearing-House to its new platform and the improvements made in accordance with the joint modalities of operation for the clearing-house mechanism of the Convention, the Biosafety Clearing-House and the Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-House.

The file attached herewith describes the nine activities that were set out in the chronogram as part of the migration, and their status as at April 2023.

Please also see the announcement on the Home page of the BCH at https://bch.cbd.int/en/

Kind regards,
The Biosafety Team