Considerations on COM(2011)130 - Signing the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

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dossier COM(2011)130 - Signing the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
document COM(2011)130 EN
date March 21, 2011
 
(1) Article 27 of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety bound the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol to initiate a process with respect to the elaboration of international rules and procedures in the field of liability and redress for damage resulting from transboundary movements of living modified organisms.

(2) In June 2007, the Council adopted a Decision authorising the Commission to participate in the liability and redress negotiations on behalf of the Union with respect to matters falling within Union competence, in accordance with certain negotiating directives. That authorisation was extended in October 2008 to cover the final stages of the negotiations.

(3) The Union coordination meeting held on 11 October 2010 during the fifth Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol in Nagoya, Japan resulted in unanimous support for the final compromise reached on the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, following consideration that it was within the limits of the agreed EU positions and the negotiating directives addressed to the Commission.

(4) On 15 October 2010, the final plenary of the fifth Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol successfully adopted the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

(5) The Protocol will be open for signature at the United Nations headquarters in New York from 7 March 2011 to 6 March 2012.

(6) On 20 December 2010, the Council welcomed the adoption of the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Protocol 2 .

(7) The Agreement should be signed on behalf of the Union, subject to its conclusion at a later date.