Coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, the Green Customs Initiative is a collaborative effort of 10 international organisations and convention secretariats concerned with the implementation or enforcement of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) with trade-related aspects. As part of this Initiative, the "Green customs guide to multilateral environmental agreements" has just been published. MEAs regulate the transboundary movement of a wide variety of items that customs or border control officers might encounter and this guide is intended to help them in their work. The 117-page book is organised in four chapters, where Chapter 2 provides an overview of the seven treaties covered by the Initiative, one of which is the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The guide is available at http://www.greencustoms.org/ or contact [email protected] for more information.

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