Cooperation with other organizations, conventions and initiatives
The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety,
Having considered the note by the Executive Secretary on cooperation with other organizations,
conventions and initiatives
(UNEP/CBD/BS/COP-MOP/2/6),
Requests
the Executive Secretary:
(a) To pursue efforts to obtain
observer status for the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
with the World Trade Organization's Committees on Sanitary and Phytosanitary
Measures and on Technical Barriers to Trade;
(b) To continue the involvement
of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in discussions
in the World Trade Organization's Committee on Trade and Environment on issues
relevant to the Protocol;
(c) To reinforce cooperation with
the Codex Alimentarius Commission, the Office International des Epizooties
and the International Plant Protection Convention on issues of mutual relevance;
(d) To intensify cooperation with
the Aarhus Convention secretariat in the United Nations Economic Commission
for Europe on matters of public
awareness and participation;
(e) To follow developments in competent
regional and international organizations with a view to exchanging experience
and building capacity on sampling plans and methods of analysis, through easy
to handle, rapid, reliable and cost-effective detection techniques for living
modified organisms;
(f) To establish cooperation with
the World Customs Organization, the International Organization for Standardization
(ISO), the United Nations Transport of Dangerous Goods Sub-Committee, the International Air Transport Association and other relevant customs
and transport organizations where biosafety issues are considered, with a
view to developing a harmonized approach for the packaging and transport of
living modified organisms in preparation for the consideration at the third
meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties
to the Protocol of the need for and modalities of developing standards with
regard to identification, handling, packaging and transport practices, in
accordance with the medium-term programme of work.
