Notifications
08/02/2012
Third Joint Capacity Building Workshop on Access and Benefit-Sharing
I am pleased to inform you that a capacity building workshop on access and benefit-sharing will be held on 30 June – 1 July 2012, at the Vigyan Bhawan Convention Center in New Delhi, India. The workshop will precede the second meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee on the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing, from 2 to 6 July 2012.
19/12/2011
Contributions due to the Core Administrative Budget and amounts due to the Working Capital Reserve
This notification refers to the Resolution 9/2011 of the Report of the Fourth Session of the Governing Body and to the Indicative Scale of Contributions for the biennium 2012-13 adopted with Core Administrative Budget.
21/09/2011
Contracting Parties and relevant organizations are invited to submit views, experiences and best practices on the implementation of Article 9 - Farmers’ Rights
The Governing Body at its Fourth Session invited Contracting Parties and other relevant organizations to, within the next twelve months, submit: Views, experiences and best practices on the implementation of Farmers’ Rights as set out in Article 9; and proposals for ways and means through which these views, experiences and best practices can be exchanged between and among Contracting Parties and relevant stakeholder groups.
19/09/2011
Capacity Building Workshop on Access and Benefit-sharing
I am pleased to inform you that a capacity building workshop on access and benefit-sharing will be held on 29-30 October 2011, in Montreal, Canada, back to back with the seventh meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8 (j) and Related Provisions (Working Group). The workshop is organized by the Secretariat of the CBD, in collaboration with the Secretariat of the International Treaty, and follows a first joint workshop that was held in June this year.
24/08/2011
Ministerial Breakfast Briefing in New York on 22 September 2011
The Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have the honor to inform that in partnership with the Government of Indonesia as the host of the Fourth Session of the Governing Body of the ITPGRFA and the Government of Japan in its capacity as the President of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the CBD, they will be organizing a Ministerial Breakfast Briefing on the sides of the UN General Assembly that will take place in the UN Secretariat Delegates’ Dining Room on 22 September 2011 from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. in New York, USA.
03/08/2011
Location of the Headquarters of the Global Crop Diversity Trust
I have the honour to inform Contracting Parties of the recent decision taken by the Executive Board of the Global Crop Diversity Trust concerning the location of the headquarters of the Trust.
22/07/2011
Announcement of a Capacity Building Project for Developing Countries on the Implementation of the International Treaty and in particular its Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing, and Call for Expressions of Interest
I have the honour to inform Contracting Parties of the launching of the referenced capacity building project by Bioversity International. The project will support research and capacity strengthening activities in countries concerning the implementation of the International Treaty, with a focus on policy issues associated with the Multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing (MLS).
06/05/2011
Capacity building workshop on the International Treaty and the Nagoya Protocol
The purpose of this notification is to inform of the capacity building workshop on the International Treaty and the Nagoya Protocol being jointly organized by the Secretariats of the CBD and the Treaty, in the framework of the Memorandum of Cooperation that was signed between the two Secretariats last October.
01/11/2010
Call for Funding of the Special Funds for Agreed Purposes
The purpose of this notification is to bring to your attention decisions that are addressed to Contracting Parties in relation to Contributions to the Special Funds of the International Treaty.
08/10/2010
Third Party Beneficiary Procedures - Nomination of Experts
The purpose of this notification is to bring to your attention decisions that are addressed to Contracting Parties in relation to the compilation of a list of experts in accordance with the Third Party Beneficiary Procedures. In the context of dispute settelment, the parties to a Standard Material Transfer Agreement may appoint mediators and arbitrators from such a list of experts.