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The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety,
1.Welcomes the progress towards operational objective 1.8 of the Strategic Plan for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety for the Period 2011-2020;1
2.Encourages Parties and invites other Governments to make available to the Biosafety Clearing-House their laws, regulations and guidelines regarding contained use and transit of living modified organisms;
3.Notes the limited number of final decisions related to transit and contained use that have been made available to the Biosafety Clearing-House;
4.Also notes the lack of clarity regarding the type of information that is to be submitted to the Biosafety Clearing-House when final decisions are taken regarding the importation of living modified organisms destined for contained use;
5.Requests the Compliance Committee to assess if information that has been submitted to the Biosafety Clearing-House under contained use is in accordance with Article 6 of the Cartagena Protocol, and make a recommendation in this regard for consideration by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol at its ninth meeting;
6.Invites Parties and other Governments, in the context of operational objective 1.8 of the Strategic Plan for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety for the period 2011-2020, to submit to the Biosafety Clearing-House practical guidance on specific measures for contained use that effectively limit the contact of living modified organisms with, and their impact on, the external environment;
7.Encourages Parties to further develop measures to manage living modified organisms in transit and to make available in the Biosafety Clearing-House information on such measures;
(a)To compile the information submitted under paragraph 6 above for the consideration of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol at its ninth meeting with a view to identifying areas where activities might be needed to support Parties in their efforts to develop national measures on contained use;