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Nagoya Protocol implementation yet to pickup pace
Wednesday October 03, 2012 08:19:14 AM,
IANS
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Hyderabad: The progress in implementing the
Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and
Redress is slow, said a top official of the secretariat of
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
On the second day of the sixth meeting of the Conference of the
Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena
Protocol on Biosafety (COP MOP 6), delegates from over 150
countries discussed issues related to the implementation of the
supplementary protocol.
The five-day meeting, which began Monday, will discuss and adopt
further decisions to contribute to ensuring the safe transfer,
handling and use of living modified organisms (LMOs) resulting
from modern biotechnology.
Charles Gbedemah, head of bio-safety, CBD, said Tuesday that the
reports submitted by the countries show the implementation of
various components of the protocol was slow.
Out of 164 countries who are party to the Cartagena Protocol, 51
have signed the supplementary protocol adopted in 2010 and only
three have ratified it.
Gbedemah attributed the slow progress in ratification to the delay
in countries framing their national legislation on liability and
redress. "Each country has a different political system and
passing of legislation by their parliaments take a long time," he
said.
At least 40 countries need to ratify the supplementary protocol
for it to come into force. "We can't set a time-frame but we hope
it would soon come into force," he said.
The meeting would discuss ways to advance the implementation of
the 10-year strategic plan for the protocol adopted at Nagoya,
Japan, two years ago. "There will be mid-term review in 2015 and
by 2020 we hope to have 100 percent implementation," Gbedemah
added.
The governments are discussing various issues like status of
capacity building activities, risk assessment, risk management,
trans-border movement of LMOs and socio economic considerations.
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