The Conference of the Parties serving as the
meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on
Biosafety,
Taking note of the experience and
views of Parties and other Governments and relevant international
organizations,
Also taking note of the additional
analysis conducted by the Secretariat on information concerning
potential gaps and inconsistencies in existing standards relevant
to the handling, transport, packaging and identification of living
modified organisms,
1.Requests Parties to the Cartagena Protocol
on Biosafety and urges other Governments:
(a)To
continue to take measures ensuring the implementation of
requirements in paragraph 2 (a) of Article 18 of the Cartagena
Protocol on Biosafety and paragraph 4 or 6, as appropriate, of
decision
BS-III/10;
(b)To
continue to identify transboundary movements of living modified
organisms intended for direct use as food or feed, or for
processing, by incorporating the information identified in
decision
BS-III/10 into existing documentation accompanying living
modified organisms;
(c)To
cooperate with and support developing country Parties and Parties
with economies in transition in order to build the capacity to
implement the identification requirements of paragraph 2 (a) of
Article 18 and related decisions;
(d)To make
available to the Biosafety Clearing-House any domestic regulatory
requirements related to the identification and documentation of
living modified organisms intended for direct use as food or feed
or for processing;
2.Decides, that a further review of the need
for a stand-alone document is not required unless a subsequent
meeting of the Parties so decides in the light of the experience
gained;
3.Invites
Parties and other Governments to use existing guidance for
handling, transport and packaging of LMOs as referred to in
relation to operational objective 1.6 of the Strategic Plan for the
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety;
4.Requests the Executive Secretary to
continue to collaborate with relevant international
standard-setting bodies and to keep Parties abreast of any new
developments in relevant international regulations and to make such
information available in the Biosafety Clearing-House in such a way
as to make it easily retrievable;
5.Encourages Parties, other Governments and
relevant organizations to provide the Executive Secretary with any
additional information that may assist Parties in identifying and
applying existing rules and standards, and requests the
Executive Secretary to make such information available through the
Biosafety Clearing-House.
