Topics (Source Decisions) | Actions expected by COP/MOP12 | Intersessional Activities[1] | Timeframe (Notification issued) | Types of Actions Expected/taken by Parties and Observers[2] |
I | II | III |
Risk assessment and risk management. (Decision CP-11/7) | SBSTTA to consider the report of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment and prepare a recommendation for consideration by COP-MOP-12. | Inviting 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 | Completed. Timeframe for Submission 14 Feb to 4 Apr 2025 NTF 2025-017 | | X | |
Nominations for the Open-ended Online Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management to support the work of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment | Completed. Timeframe for Nominations 7 Mar to 11 Apr 2025 NTF 2025-029 | X | | |
| Nominations for the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment | Completed. Timeframe for Nominations 16 Apr to 9 May 2025 NTF 2025-051 | X | | |
| Convene Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment | Completed. 8-11 July 2025 | | | |
| COP-MOP to consider the synthesis prepared by the Secretariat. | Notification inviting Parties, other Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations and stakeholders that have used the voluntary guidance materials to submit to the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity information on their experiences and assessment of the applicability and usefulness of the materials. | January – March 2026 | | X | |
| Compliance. | Under this item, COPMOP12 will consider the report of the Compliance Committee, including recommendations. The COP-MOP will also be invited to consider information gathered on national legislation, regulations and guidelines on new developments in modern biotechnology. | Follow-up on compliance issues with Parties is ongoing. Parties will be invited to submit information regarding national legislation, regulations and guidelines on new developments in modern biotechnology that are relevant to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and not published in the Biosafety Clearing-House | Notification inviting submissions to be issued in November 2025 (tentative) | | X | |
| Monitoring and reporting (Article 33). | COPMOP12 will review information on the status of submission of the fifth national reports | Parties to submit their fifth national reports on the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety | National reports due by 28 February 2026 NTF 2024-073 Reminder notification Q2/Q3 2025 | | X | |
| Matters related to the financial mechanism and resources (Article 28). | COP-MOP-12 will consider recommendations from SBI and GEF report | Submission of national funding priorities, including nationally prioritized funding needs that could be considered as eligible for funding under the financial mechanism specifically for the period July 2026 to June 2030 NTF 2025-066 | Timeframe for submissions by 30/06/2025 | | X | |
| Consideration by SBI-6 and SBI -7 | |
| Operation and activities of the Biosafety Clearing-House (Article 20). | COP-MOP-12 will consider the customized biosafety national website template and make further recommendations | Develop a customized biosafety national website template using the Bioland tool (with linkages to the BCH) and make it available to Parties | Draft version of biosafety national website template to be ready Q4 2025 | | | |
| | Receive input from Parties interested in creating a national website | Notification inviting Parties to communicate interest in receiving support to build a national website to be issued Q1 2026 | X | | |
| COP-MOP-12 will take note of the recommendations made by the BCH IAC at its 13th meeting. | 13th meeting of the BCH Informal Advisory Committee (IAC) | To be held on 9-11 December 2025 in Montreal, Canada Invitations to BCH-IAC members will be sent out in June 2025, as well as the Notification announcing the list of BCH-IAC members | X | | |
| | Biosafety Clearing-House Training Workshop on the margins of COPMOP12 | Notification inviting nominations Q2/Q3 2026 | X | | |
| Socio-economic considerations (Article 26). | COP-MOP is to consider information on experience with the voluntary guidance on the assessment of socioeconomic considerations in the context of Art. 26 of the Protocol (decision CP-11/9) | Parties are to provide information on their experience using the voluntary guidance through the fifth national reports or the BCH. | Invitation to provide information through the fifth national reports will be included in reminder notification about the reporting deadline Reminder notification to be issued Q2/Q3 2025 | | X | |
| Detection and identification of living modified organisms. | COP-MOP to consider a compilation of the technical reference documents and other materials prepared by the Secretariat | Notification inviting Parties to nominate experts to participate in the workshop on the detection and identification of living modified organisms and the role of customs officials in implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety | Completed. Timeframe for Nominations 27 Jun to 25 Jul 2025 NTF 2025-085 | X | | |
| Workshop on the detection and identification of living modified organisms and the role of customs in enforcing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety | Workshop to be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 22-26 September 2025 |
| Convening online discussions of the Network of Laboratories for the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms | November 2025 |
| Notification inviting Parties, other Governments, participants of the Network on Laboratories, developers and other relevant organizations to submit technical reference documents and other materials related to new quantitative polymerase chain reaction techniques, digital polymerase chain reaction, next-generation sequencing and isothermal amplification techniques in order to complement and update future editions of the Training Manual (Biosafety Technical Series 05) | February to May 2026 |
| Notification inviting Parties to share their experience with new detection techniques on the BCH, such as those for detecting newly developed living modified organisms and unauthorized living modified organisms, including those that contain stacked events, and with developing, using and maintaining reference materials | April 2026 |
| Review of effectiveness of structures and processes under the Convention and its Protocols. | SBI-6 will consider proposals for further improving the effectiveness of meetings under the Convention and its Protocols, with a view to developing draft decisions for consideration by COP-17, COP-MOP 12 and COP-MOP 6, taking into account SBI recommendation 4/12 of 29 May 2024, including the compilation of submissions contained in annex II to the recommendation. | A consultant (qualified external expert) to be engaged to assist with research, consultations with Parties, partners and stakeholders, and preparation of a working document for consideration by SBI 6. A survey to be conducted for Bureau members | Engagement of consultant (July 2025) Notification inviting views from Parties, partners and stakeholders; and Bureau survey (Q3-2025) | | X | |
| Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress. | COP-MOP 12 will be invited to consider information on the status of the Supplementary Protocol. | Parties to the Supplementary Protocol are to share information on the implementation of the Supplementary Protocol in their fifth national reports. | Invitation to provide information through the fifth national reports will be included in reminder notification about the reporting deadline Reminder notification to be issued Q2/Q3 2025 | | X | |
