Welcoming the information provided by
the Executive Secretary on activities undertaken to improve
cooperation with other organizations, conventions and initiatives,
5 Also welcoming the Executive
Secretary's cooperation with, inter alia, the World Trade
Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations, the International Plant Protection Convention, the
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 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), the
European Union Reference Laboratory for GM Food and Feed of the
Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, and the Green
Customs Initiative,
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, relating, in
particular, to the key areas of the Protocol, namely
capacity-building, information sharing, detection and
identification of living modified organisms, public awareness and
participation and risk assessment,
1.Urges
Parties to improve and strengthen collaboration at the regional and
national levels among focal points of organizations, conventions
and initiatives relevant to the implementation of the Biosafety
Protocol, as appropriate;
2.Requests the Executive Secretary, subject
to the availability of funds:
(a)To further
pursue, at the current level, cooperation with other organizations,
conventions and initiatives, including academic and research
institutions, from all regions, with a view to meeting the
strategic objective in focal area 5 of the Strategic Plan, on
outreach and cooperation;
(b)To promote
active participation of other conventions and related organizations
in the BCH online discussion portal;
(c)To
continue efforts to gain observer status for the Convention on
Biological Diversity in those committees of the World Trade
Organization that are relevant to biosafety.
