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Fifth Meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts on Liability
and Redress in the context of the
Protocol on Biosafety
12-19 March 2008 |
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
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Highlights for Wednesday, 12 March 2008
The fifth meeting of the Open-Ended Ad Hoc Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts on Liability and Redress (hereafter, the Working Group) opened in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, on Wednesday morning.
The Minister of Environment, Housing and Territory Development, Juan Lozano (Colombia), welcomed delegates to the “beautiful and historic” city of Cartagena and said the desire for results would guide the Working Group’s tasks.
Dane Ratcliff, legal counsel for the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), made an expert presentation on settlement of claims and answered questions relating to options for liability and redress under the Biosafety Protocol.
Co-Chair René Lefeber then opened the floor for reflection and comments on the feasibility of adopting various types of instruments. In the ensuing discussion, delegates stated their preferences for various approaches and indicated areas of flexibility.
In the afternoon, the meeting was adjourned to give delegates time for regional coordination and bilateral meetings with the Co-Chairs.
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Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) resources
Meeting documents
Provisional agenda
Annotated Provisional Agenda
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety web page
Global Biodiversity Outlook
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of the Fourth meeting of the AHOE-WG of Legal and Technical Experts on Liability and Redress in the context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, 22-26 October 2007, Montréal, Canada
IISD RS summary report of the Third meeting of the AHOE-WG of Legal and Technical Experts on Liability and Redress in the context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, 19-23 February 2007, Montréal, Canada ( HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the CBD COP-8, 20-31 March 2006, Curitiba, Brazil
IISD RS coverage of the Third Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the CBD serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP/MOP-3), 13-17 March 2006, Curitiba, Brazil
IISD RS coverage of the Second meeting of the AHOE-WG of Legal and Technical Experts on Liability and Redress in the context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, 20-24 February 2006, Montréal, Canada
IISD RS coverage of the COP-7 to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the seventeenth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (COP-7/MOP-17), Dakar, Senegal, 12-16 December 2005
IISD RS coverage of the COP/MOP-2, 30 May - 3 June 2005, Montréal, Canada
IISD RS coverage of the First meeting of the AHOE-WG of Legal and Technical Experts on Liability and Redress in the context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, 25-27 May 2005, Montréal, Canada
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