Calendar of Activities

Activities	Main Actors	Timeframe	Status
Notification inviting the submission of information (decision XIII/17, para 10) and new nominations to the online forum (SCBD/SPS/DC/DA/MW/86375)	Secretariat	16 March 2017	Concluded
Submissions by Parties, other Governments and relevant organizations (decision XIII/17, para 10) Deadline for submissions	Parties, other Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant stakeholders	16 June 2017	Concluded
Nomination of participants to the online forum	Parties, other Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant stakeholders	16 March 2017 - ongoing	Ongoing
Confirmation of current AHTEG members	AHTEG members, Secretariat	April 2017	Concluded
Replacement of AHTEG members whose participation was not confirmed	Secretariat, SBSTTA Bureau	May-June 2017	Concluded
Selection of moderators for the online discussions	Secretariat	April –May 2017	Concluded
Online discussions (topics drawn from annex of decision XIII/17)	Online forum	2017: Topic 1: 3-17 July Topic 2: 17-31 July Topic 3: 4-18 Sept Topic 4: 18 Sept-2 Oct	Concluded
Meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Synthetic Biology (Montreal, Canada)	AHTEG	5 - 8 December 2017	Concluded
Peer-review of AHTEG report (Notification to be issued in December 2017)	Parties, other Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant stakeholders	January – February 2018	Concluded
SBSTTA-22 meeting (Montreal, Canada)	SBSTTA	2 - 7 July 2018	Concluded
UN Biodiversity Conference (COP-14 / CP-MOP-9 / NP-MOP-3 concurrent meetings) (Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt)	COP	17 - 29 November 2018	Concluded

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