The Biosafety Clearing-House of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

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The Biosafety Clearing-House of the Cartagena
Protocol on Biosafety
Tutorial Text pages (Home - The BCH - The
Protocol)
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The Biosafety Clearing-House of the Cartagena
Protocol on Biosafety
Welcome to this tutorial on the text pages of the
Biosafety Clearing-House. In this section you
will learn about the features that can be found
on the homepage as well as two sections listed in
the horizontal navigation bar of the BCH named
The BCH and The Protocol.
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The Main page contains a welcome message and two
lists one of the news and one of records that
have been recently registered in the BCH
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The Latest news is a list of the latest BCH
News. You may click on the item of interest to
access the full text of the news item.
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You may also click here to access all of the news
items that have been posted on the BCH.
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The Latest additions is a list of the latest
records that have been registered in the BCH.
Click on the record of interest to access the
complete record.
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You may also click here to access a more
extensive list of latest additions.
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On the right hand side of the Main page you will
find banners displaying the main recent biosafety
activities reported by the BCH.
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You may click on them for quick access to the
relevant pages
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Now lets move to the BCH section. The Main page
of this section provides an overview of the
Mandate of the BCH as well as its Modalities of
Operation and the Multi-year Program of Work
which are the two primary sources of guidance on
the functioning and implementation of the BCH.
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From the links in this subsection you can access
the entire text of the Modalities of Operation
and the Multi-year Program of Work. You can also
access all decisions taken by the COP-MOP on the
BCH and a timeline covering the development of
the BCH.
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In this subsection you will find information on
the BCH Informal Advisory Committee (BCH-IAC).
This committee provides guidance with respect to
resolution of technical issues associated with
the ongoing development of the BCH. Note that
access to the IAC forum is limited to IAC members
only.
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Under this heading you can access recent points
of interest regarding the BCH including
notifications of the CBD Secretariat on the
Cartagena Protocol as well as meeting dates and
documents.
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The primary BCH policies are available here.
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Now lets move to the Protocol section. The Main
page of this section contains an introduction to
and brief history of the Protocol, a short
overview of the ICCP process as well as related
links to COP decisions, ICCP meetings and
meetings of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Working Group
on Biosafety.
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Here you will find links to the text of the
Protocol, a list of the Parties to the Protocol,
COP-MOP-Decisions, different types of reports
(including National Reports) as well as
notifications issued by the Secretariat on the
Cartagena Protocol and meeting dates and
documents.
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The Biosafety Clearing-House of the Cartagena
Protocol on Biosafety
End of the tutorial onBCH Text pages