Calendar of Activities 2025-2026
| Activity | Timeframe | Status |
Notification inviting Parties to submit detailed information on their needs and priorities for further guidance materials on specific topics of risk assessment of living modified organisms, including a rationale following the criteria set out in annex I to decision CP-9/13 (Notification 2025-017) | 12 February – 4 April 2025 | Concluded |
Notification inviting Parties, other Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations and stakeholders to nominate experts to participate in the Open-Ended Online Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management (Notification 2025-029) | 7 March – 11 April 2025 | Concluded |
Notification inviting Parties, other Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations to nominate experts to the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment (Notification 2025-051) | 16 April - 9 May 2025 | Concluded |
| Online discussions of the Open-Ended Online Forum | 21 April – 9 May 2025 | Concluded |
International training course on risk assessments of living modified organisms Brasilia, Brazil | 2-6 June 2025 | Concluded |
Meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment Montreal, Canada | 8-11 July 2025 | Concluded |
27th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (meeting website) Panama City, Panama | 20–24 October 2025 | Concluded |
Notification inviting Parties, other Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations and stakeholders that have used the voluntary guidance materials to submit information on their experiences and assessment of the applicability and usefulness of the materials to the Executive Secretary (Notification 2026-038) | 14 April - 22 May 2026 | Concluded |
UN Biodiversity Conference (Twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol (COP-MOP 12)) Yerevan, Armenia | 19–30 October 2026 | Forthcoming |
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