Implementation Plan for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

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.

Main steps in the development of the Implementation plan for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety post-2020

• Submissions by Parties, other Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations that provide views on the structure and content of the the Implementation Plan for the Cartagena Protocol post-2020. See Notification 2019-027 (28 February 2019) and the submissions received.

• Preparation of a draft of the Implementation Plan on the basis of the submissions, by the Secretariat.

• Open-ended online discussions on the post-2020 Implementation Plan for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. See Notification 2019-044. A report of the online discussions is available here.

• Thirteenth meeting of the Liaison Group on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, held from 22 to 25 October 2019, to review the draft of the Implementation Plan. Report of the meeting is available here

• Peer-review (December 2019-January 2020) of the draft of the Implementation Plan in conjunction with the peer review of the draft action plan for capacity-building for implementation of the Cartagena Protocol and its Supplementary Protocol.

• Consideration of the Implementation Plan by the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI) - Document CBD/SBI/3/18

• Consideration by COP-MOP 10. SBI Recommendation 3/4