Here is the ENB summary of ICCP-3 with the usual rearrangements.

1.  INTRODUCTION
2.  A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF ICCP-3
3.  ICCP-3 REPORT
4.  THINGS TO LOOK FOR
5.  A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CARTAGENA PROTOCOL

Best wishes

David Duthie
E-mail:  david.duthie@unep.org

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ICCP-3  Final Summary

EARTH NEGOTIATIONS BULLETIN
PUBLISHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT (IISD)

Written and edited by:

Jacob Andersen <jacob@iisd.org>
Changbo Bai <changbo@iisd.org>
Stas Burgiel <stas@iisd.org>
Teya Penniman <teya@iisd.org>
Charlotte Salpin <charlotte@iisd.org>
Elsa Tsioumani <elsa@iisd.org>

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Vol. 09 No. 244
Monday, 29 April 2002

Coverage of the Third Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee
for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (ICCP-3) can be found at:
http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/biodiv/iccp3/

THIRD MEETING OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMITTEE ON THE CARTAGENA
PROTOCOL ON BIOSAFETY:

22 - 26 APRIL 2002

1. INTRODUCTION

The third meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (ICCP) to the Convention on
Biological Diversity (CBD) was held at the Netherlands Congress
Centre in The Hague, the Netherlands, from 22-26 April 2002.
Approximately, 580 participants from 147 countries and 100
intergovernmental, non-governmental and industry organizations
attended. Delegates met in Plenary, two working groups and two
contact groups. Working Group I addressed: information sharing;
handling, transport, packaging and identification (HTPI);
monitoring and reporting; and other issues necessary for the
Protocol's effective implementation. Working Group II addressed:
liability and redress; compliance; and capacity building,
including the roster of experts. ICCP-3 adopted thirteen
recommendations, which will be considered by the first Conference
of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (MOP).

The most contentious areas of discussion at ICCP-3 concerned
compliance, liability and redress, and HTPI, particularly
regarding provisions in Article 18.2 on documentation for living
modified organisms (LMOs) for food, feed or processing (LMO-FFPs),
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Strategic Plan; the statement to the World Summit on Sustainable
Development (WSSD); capacity building; the budget; and
applications for CBD Secretariat observer status to the WTO
Committees on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards and on
Technical Barriers to Trade. COP-6 also decided that if the
Protocol enters into force within a year, the MOP-1 will be held
with an extraordinary COP. If the Protocol enters into force
later, then MOP-1 will be held in conjunction with COP-7, after a
potential ICCP-4.

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