Submissions

Further to Decision CP-9/14, Parties, other Governments, relevant organizations and indigenous peoples and local communities were invited, through notification 2019-031, to submit:

1. preliminary experiences using the voluntary Guidance, as well as
2. examples of methodologies and applications of socio-economic considerations, in the light of the elements of the voluntary Guidance, preferably in the form of case studies

The Voluntary Guidance on the Assessment of Socio-economic Considerations in the Context of Article 26 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is available in the Annex of document CP-MOP-9-10.

Below are all submissions received.