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.
• Face-to-face meeting of the Liaison Group

• Peer-review by Parties to the Cartagena Protocol of the draft of the Implementation Plan.

• Consideration of the Implementation Plan by the Subsidiary Body on Implementation and subsequently COP-MOP 10.