Welcoming the information provided by
the Executive Secretary on activities undertaken to improve
cooperation with other organizations, conventions and initiatives
(
UNEP/CBD/BS/COP-MOP/6/5),
Also welcoming the Executive
Secretary's cooperation with, inter alia, the Green
Customs Initiative, the World Trade Organization, the Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Plant
Protection Convention and the United Nations Economic Commission
for Europe Convention on Access to Information, Public
Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in
Environmental Matters (the Aarhus Convention),
Underlining the contribution of
cooperation and coordination among relevant organizations,
multilateral agreements and initiatives to the effective
implementation of the Protocol and the Strategic Plan for the
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety for the period 2011-2020, adopted
at the fifth meeting of the Parties to the Protocol,
Requests the Executive Secretary,
subject to the availability of funds, to:
(a)Further pursue cooperation with
other organizations, conventions and initiatives with a view to
meeting the strategic objective in focal area 5 of the Strategic
Plan, on outreach and cooperation;
(b)Continue efforts to gain
observer status in those committees of the World Trade Organization
that are relevant to biosafety.
