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Third Meeting
of the Conference of the Parties serving as Meeting of the
Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
13-17
March 2006| Curitiba, Brazil
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The third 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-3) opens tomorrow in
Curitiba, Brazil, and will continue until 17 March 2006.
COP/MOP-3 will consider several reports on ongoing activities within the Protocol’s mandate, as well as: requirements for the handling, transport, packaging and identification living modified organisms
(LMOs), documentation requirements for LMOs for food, feed and processing
(FFPs); risk assessment and risk management criteria; liability and redress; the need to establish subsidiary bodies; and monitoring, reporting, assessment and review of
implementation.
Above photo: View of the ExpoTrade in Curitiba,
Brazil venue for the
CBD COP-8 and MOP-3.
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