ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE INTERIM NATIONAL REPORTS AND INFORMATION PUBLISHED IN THE ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING CLEARING HOUSE

Article 29 of the Protocol requires each Party to monitor the implementation of its obligations under the Nagoya Protocol and to report to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (COP-MOP) on measures that it has taken to implement the Protocol. [...] The first meeting of COP-MOP, in decision NP-1/3, agreed on the format and guidelines for submission of an interim national report on the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol, and requested Parties to the Protocol to submit the report twelve months prior to the third meeting of COP-MOP. [...] COP-MOP requested the Executive Secretary to consolidate information contained in the interim national reports received from Parties and information published in the Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-House (ABS Clearing-House) for the consideration of the third meeting of COP-MOP, as a contribution to the assessment and review of the effectiveness of the Protocol by COP-MOP, pursuant to Article. [...] Element (a) of the annex addresses the extent of implementation of the provisions of the Protocol and related obligations of Parties, 3Kazakhstan CBD/SBI/2/INF/3 Page 5 including assessment of progress by Parties in establishing institutional structures and access and benefit-sharing measures to implement the Protocol and includes the following sources of information: Interim national reports; Acc. [...] In the light of this decision, for those countries that did not submit an interim national report, information provided through the national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs) and the fifth national reports on the implementation of the Convention has been considered in the analysis of the first part of the interim national reports entitled “Institutional structures for the implement.