1.Welcomes the contribution of US$ 1,126,162 for 2012, to be increased by 2 per cent per year, from the host country Canada and the Province of Quebec to the operation of the Secretariat, of which 16.5 per cent has been allocated per annum to offset contributions from the Parties to the Protocol for the biennium 2013-2014;

2.Approves a core programme budget (BG) of US$ 2,922,100 for the year 2013 and of US$ 2,963,100 for the year 2014, for the purposes set out in table 1 below;

3.Approves the secretariat staffing as set out in table 2 below;

4.Adopts the scale of assessments for the apportionment of the costs under the Protocol for 2013 and 2014 set out in table 5 below;

5.Decides to maintain the working capital reserve at a level of 5 per cent of the core programme budget (BG) expenditure, including programme support costs;

6.Authorizes the Executive Secretary to enter into commitments up to the level of the approved budget, drawing on available cash resources, including unspent balances, contributions from previous financial periods and miscellaneous income;

7.Agrees to share the costs for secretariat services between those that are common to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Protocol on an 85:15 ratio for the biennium 2013-2014;

8.Noting that as a contingency plan and in the event that the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity decides at its eleventh meeting that its twelfth meeting will take place in early 2015 a provisional budget for 2015 to allow for the funding of the seventh meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol and the operations of the Secretariat in 2015 should be agreed upon by the current meeting of the Parties, adopts on a provisional basis the alternative tables 6-7 which will replace tables and figures mentioned above should the Conference of the Parties decide to hold its twelfth meeting in 2015 rather than 2014; ^*

9.Invites all Parties to the Protocol to note that contributions to the core programme budget (BG) are due on 1 January of the year in which these contributions have been budgeted for, and to pay them promptly, and urges Parties in a position to do so, to pay by 1 December of the year 2012 for the calendar year 2013 and by 1 October 2013 for the calendar year 2014, the contributions set out in table  5 and in this regard requests that Parties be notified of the amount of their contributions for 2014 by 1 August 2013;

10.Notes with concern that a number of Parties have not paid their contributions to the core budget (BG Trust Fund) for 2012 and prior years;

11.Urges Parties that have still not paid their contributions to the core budget (BG Trust Fund) for 2012 and prior years; to do so without delay and requests the Executive Secretary to publish and regularly update information on the status of contributions to the Protocol's Trust Funds (BG, BH and BI);

12.Decides that with regard to contributions due from 1 January 2005 onwards, Parties whose contributions are in arrears for two (2) or more years will not be eligible to become a member of the bureau of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol; this will only apply in the case of Parties that are not least developed countries or small island developing States;

13.Authorizes the Executive Secretary to enter into arrangements with any Party whose contributions are in arrears for two or more years to mutually agree on a 'schedule of payments' for such a Party, to clear all outstanding arrears, within six years depending on the financial circumstances of the Party in arrears and pay future contributions by the due date, and report on the implementation of any such arrangement to the next meeting of the Bureau and to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety;

14.Decides that a Party with an agreed arrangement in accordance with paragraph 13 above and that is fully respecting the provisions of that arrangement will not be subject to the provisions of paragraph 12 above;

15.Requests the Executive Secretary and invites the President of the COP-MOP through a jointly signed letter to notify Parties whose contributions are in arrears and to invite them to take timely action.

16.Agrees with the funding estimates for activities under the Protocol to be financed from: and urges Parties to make contributions to these funds;

17.Invites all States not Parties to the Protocol, as well as governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and other sources, to contribute to the trust funds for the Protocol (BH, BI) to enable the Secretariat to implement approved activities in a timely manner especially capacity-building priorities and activities identified by developing countries and small island developing States, and Parties with economies in transition in respect of risk assessment and risk management and the effective operation of the Biosafety Clearing-House;

18.Notes with concern and regret that the core programme budget (BG) does not contain adequate finance for all activities identified by the Parties, including the priorities of developing country Parties. This has resulted in finance for technical Expert Groups to be dependent on voluntary funding which could have in particular a deleterious effect on capacity building for developing countries. Therefore agrees that the allocation of funds for the technical Expert Groups from the BH should not become standard practice in future budgets;

19.Reaffirms the importance of full and active participation of the developing country parties, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States, as well as Parties with economies in transition in the activities of the Protocol and requests the Secretariat to remind Parties of the need to contribute to the Special Voluntary Trust Fund (BI) at least six months prior to the ordinary meetings of the Conference of the Parties, and urges Parties in the position to do so to ensure that the contributions are paid at least three months before the meeting;

20.Noting the low level of contributions to the BI Trust Fund, which facilitates participation in the meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol, and with a view to increasing finance for such participation, requests the Conference of the Parties to explore the possibility of merging the BI special voluntary Trust Fund with the BZ Voluntary Trust Fund, which facilitates participation of Parties in the Convention process, taking into account advice to be provided by the Executive Secretary and the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, and in the event of such a merger, further requests the Executive Secretary to ensure transparency when reporting expenditure for the Protocol and the Convention under the merged Trust Fund;

21.Decides that the trust funds for the Protocol (BG, BH, BI) shall be extended for a period of two years, beginning 1 January 2014 and ending 31 December 2015; and requests the Executive Director of UNEP to seek the approval of the Governing Council of UNEP for their extensions;

22.Requests the Executive Secretary to prepare and submit a programme budget for secretariat services, and the biosafety work programme of the Protocol and the Supplementary Protocol, including terms of reference for any proposals for new staff, and agrees to upgrade a post for the implementation of the Supplementary Protocol for the biennium 2015-2016 to the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol; and to provide three alternatives for the budget based on:

23.Welcomes the action taken by the Executive Secretary in response to paragraph 25 of decision BS-V/7 on providing all relevant financial information to the MOP, and further requests that the related COP papers are also posted on the MOP document website;

24.Requests the Executive Secretary to seek further operational efficiencies in the biennium 2013-2014 and in the organization of the Convention of the Parties serving as the meeting of Parties to the Cartagena Protocol given that it is held in conjunction with the meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention and to report thereon at the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol.