The Conference Process and the Decisions Concerning Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS)
The following bodies are relevant in the conference process on access and benefit-sharing (ABS) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD):
- The Conference of the Parties (COP)
- The Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing
- The Panel of Experts for Access and Benefit-sharing
Below the most important conferences and decisions concerning the ABS-process will be named and explained chronological:
The fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) (Bratislava, 1998)
Panel of Experts (San Jose, 1999)
The fifth meeting of the COP (Nairobi, 2000)
The first meeting of the Working Group on ABS (Bonn, 2001)
The sixth meeting of the COP (Den Haag, 2002)
The second meeting of the Working Group on ABS (Montreal, 2003)
The seventh meeting of the COP (Kuala Lumpur, 2004)
The third meeting of the Working Group on ABS (Bangkok, 2005)
The fourth meeting of the Working Group on ABS (Granada, 2006)
The eighth meeting of the COP (Curitiba, 2006)
International group of technical experts for an internationally recognised certificate of origin/source/legal provenance (Lima, 2007)
The fifth meeting of the Working Group on ABS (Montreal, 2007)
The sixth meeting of the Working Group on ABS (Montreal, 2008)
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Furthermore informations on EU submissions in reply to notifications on ABS are available.
