One of the decisions (BS-II/9) made at the 2nd meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP/2) included a request that the Executive Secretary would convene, prior to the 4th meeting, regional workshops on capacity-building and exchange of experiences on risk assessment and risk management of living modified organisms. In this context, an African regional workshop was held on 23-25 August 2007 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, hosted by the African Union Commission and funded by the Government of the Netherlands and its report is now available. Secondly, a Central and Eastern European regional workshop will be held on 26-28 November 2007 in Chisinau, Moldova, hosted by the Government of Moldova, with funding from the Government of Switzerland, and the meeting documents are available at http://www.cbd.int/doc/meeting.asp?mtg=RWCBCEE-01. Contact [email protected] for any further information.

18/11/2007