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Seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties
to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP/MOP 7)

29 September - 3 October 2014 | Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea

Highlights for Tuesday, 30 September 2014

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Intro - 29 September - 30 September - 1 October - 2 October - 3 October - Summary

COP/MOP 7 delegates met in working groups throughout the day. WG I considered: compliance; financial mechanism and resources; liability and redress; socio-economic considerations; monitoring and reporting; the Protocol’s third review of effectiveness; and improving efficiency of structures and processes under the Convention and its Protocols. WG II considered: the Biosafety Clearing-house (BCH); handling, transport, packaging and identification (HTPI) of living modified organisms (LMOs); and risk assessment and risk management.

A friends of the chair group on financial mechanism and resources and a contact group on risk assessment and risk management met in the evening.

Packed evening contact group on risk assessment and risk management

WORKING GROUP I

Francis Ogwal, Uganda, chairs Working Group I (WG I)

L-R: Paola Scarone, CBD Secretariat; Kathryn Garforth, CBD Secretariat; WG I Chair Ogwal, Erie Tamale, CBD Secretariat;
and Worku Damena Yifru, CBD Secretariat

Spencer Thomas, Grenada

Pablo Pindado, EU

Jorge Ernesto Quezada Diaz, El Salvador

R. A. Usman, Nigeria

Letchumanan Ramatha, Malaysia

Raed Bani Hani, Jordan

José Luis Bernal, Mexico

Ranjini Warrier, India

Andreas Heissenberger, Co-chair of the AHTEG on Socio-economic Considerations

Chair Ogwal confers with members of the friends of the chair group

Delegates from Mauritania and Uganda consulting

Delegate from South Africa in discussion with delegates from the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Liberia

L-R: Dubrovka Stepic, Croatia, in conversation with Andreas Heissenberger, Co-chair of the
AHTEG on Socio-economic Considerations

WORKING GROUP II

Chaweewan Hutacharern, Thailand, chairs Working Group (WG II)

Ella Strickland, EU

Antje Lorch, ECOROPA

Ileana Lopez, UN Environment Programme

Davi Bonavides, Brazil

Wang Jie, China

Jaime Montoya, the Philippines

Dais with WG II Chair Hutacharern

Bertrand Dagallier, OECD

Elena Makeyeva, Belarus

Bjarte Rambjør Heide, Norway

Moustafa Mokhtar Ali Fouda, Egypt

David Hafashimana, Uganda

Soon Ki Park, Republic of Korea

View of WG II plenary session

CONTACT GROUP ON RISK ASSESSMENT AND RISK MANAGEMENT

Delegates negotiating in the contact group on risk assessment and risk management

COP/MOP 7 SNAPSHOTS

Exhibition booth of the Korean Ministry of Environment

Elaine Limjoco, ENB, receiving a traditional scarf from the
Gangwon Province booth

Miseon booth on organic cosmetics

Genetically modified fish that glow in the dark, on display in the exhibition hall

COP/MOP 7 participants at the Korean Biosphere Reserve booth

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Intro - 29 September - 30 September - 1 October - 2 October - 3 October - Summary

Related Links

COP-MOP 7 Resources

COP-MOP 7 Website

COP-MOP 7 Annotated Provisional Agenda

COP-MOP 7 Meeting Documents

COP-MOP 7 Side Events

COP-MOP 7 Special Session on Implementation

Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA) Fair during COP-MOP 7

Previous COP-MOP Meetings

Other COP 2014 Meetings

Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety Website

Host Country Website

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Seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP/MOP 7)

Seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties
to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP/MOP 7)