Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Intergovernmental Committee for the Cartagena Protocol

Meetings

Background

In decision EM-I/3, the Conference of the Parties established an open-ended ad hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (ICCP) with a mandate to undertake, with the support of the Executive Secretary, the preparations necessary for the first meeting of the Parties to the Protocol, at which time the Committee will cease to exist, taking into account the budgetary provisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties. The decision also appointed Ambassador Philemon Yang (Cameroon) as Chairman of the ICCP.

Bureau

Pursuant to paragraph 8 of decision EM-I/3, the Intergovernmental Committee convened an organizational meeting on 29 January 2000, chaired by Ambassador Yang, for the purpose of electing its Bureau from among the representatives of the Parties present at the resumed session of the first extraordinary meeting of the Conference of the Parties.

At the organizational meeting, the Intergovernmental Committee endorsed the nominations by the respective regional groups of the following Parties to serve on its Bureau: Cameroon (Chair), Denmark, India, Islamic Republic of Iran, Peru, Poland, Saint Kitts and Nevis, South Africa, Switzerland and Ukraine. At the first meeting of ICCP, Denmark was replaced by France.

Contact details for ICCP Bureau members and ICCP National Focal Points are available on the CBD website.

Related links:

• ICCP-3
• ICCP-2
• ICCP-1

• Joint Meeting of the COP Bureau and the ICCP Bureau
      (22 Feb. 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
• Joint meeting of the COP Bureau and ICCP Bureau
      (15 Nov. 2003, Montreal, Canada)
• Meeting of the ICCP Bureau
      (28 - 29 Aug. 2003, Montreal, Canada)
• Joint meeting of the COP Bureau and ICCP Bureau
      (15 Mar. 2003, Montreal, Canada)
• Joint meeting of the COP Bureau and ICCP Bureau
      (18 Dec. 2002, Montreal, Canada)
• Meeting of the ICCP Bureau
      (16 - 17 Dec. 2002, Montreal, Canada)
• Meeting of the ICCP Bureau
      (18 - 19 Feb. 2002, Yaounde, Cameroon)
• Meeting of the ICCP Bureau (By Teleconference)
      (6 Nov. 2001, Montreal, Canada)
• Meeting of the ICCP Bureau
      (9 - 10 Jul. 2001, Havana, Cuba)
• Meeting of the ICCP Bureau
      (21 Mar. 2001, Montreal, Canada)
• Meeting of the ICCP Bureau
      (14 - 15 Sep. 2000, Montreal, Canada)

• Pilot Phase of the Biosafety Clearing-House: Note by the Bureau of the ICCP on technical issues associated with the implementation of the Pilot Phase of the Biosafety Clearing-House
      (30 Mar. 2001)
• Decisions taken by the Bureau of the ICCP
      (14-15 Sep. 2000)

• Members of the ICCP Bureau

• ICCP Focal Points