The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol decided (
decision CP-9/7) to develop a specific
Implementation Plan for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety as a follow-up to the Strategic Plan for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety for the period 2011-2020 and agreed on a process for its development, in which it assigned a key role for the
Liaison Group on the Cartagena Protocol.