With a view to having a fully
functional ABS Clearing-House, Parties are kindly reminded to expedite
the designation of their publishing authorities and national authorized
users for the ABS Clearing-House and are invited to actively
participate in sharing national information through this platform. To
support this process, the Secretariat is currently undertaking an
outreach and engagement campaign among Parties and is available for
providing training sessions in the format of webinars
and technical assistance to Parties having designated their publishing
authorities that request technical support for registering information
on the ABS Clearing-House. Please contact
absch@cbd.int if you require any assistance.
In addition, please be informed
that in order to launch the operational phase of the ABS Clearing-House
by the date of entry into force of the Nagoya Protocol, all test records
currently hosted in the ABS Clearing-House will be deleted,
and all information published in the central portal will become
official information.
Against this background and in
order to officially launch the operational phase of the ABS
Clearing-House and conduct hands-on training, I am pleased to inform you
that, thanks to the generous contribution of the European Union, a
capacity-building
workshop on the ABS Clearing-House will be held on 12 October 2014 in
Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, back-to-back with COP-MOP 1 to the
Nagoya Protocol. The outcomes of this workshop will be made available to
COP-MOP 1 as an information document.
A draft programme containing the
objectives and methodology of the workshop is attached for your
information and is available on the Secretariat website at the following
address:
http://www.cbd.int/doc/?meeting=ABSWS-2014-07.
The workshop will be divided in two
different sessions: a general informative session in the morning and a
training session in the afternoon.
The objective of the morning
session is to launch the operational phase of the ABS Clearing-House and
improve understanding of the role of the ABS Clearing-House for
supporting implementation of the Protocol. It will also increase
awareness
of the importance of actively participating in sharing information
through this platform. This session is open to the general public and
interpretation will be offered in English, French and Spanish.
In the afternoon, the workshop will
consist of a hands-on training on registering and retrieving
information through the ABS Clearing-House. Only publishing authorities
and national authorized users designated for the ABS Clearing-House
are invited to participate in the afternoon session of the workshop.
For this reason, Parties to the Convention are encouraged to designate
their publishing authorities and national authorized users for the ABS
Clearing-House prior to the workshop. Please
refer to notification 2014-045 for further information on how to
proceed with designations (http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2014/ntf-2014-045-abs-parties-en.docx).
In order to enable hands-on
training during the afternoon session of the workshop for the submission
of national information, participants are highly encouraged to
bring their own computer and national information on the following topics, if available:
(a) Competent national authorities;
(b) Legislative, administrative and policy measures on access and benefit-sharing;
(c) Permits or their equivalent; and
(d) Checkpoints.
The text of this notification is also available on the CBD website at:
http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2014/ntf-2014-110-absch-en.pdf
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