At their 1st meeting in 2002, the Parties to the Aarhus Convention (i.e. the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters) established a Working Group on GMOs. The main task of the Working Group is to explore options for a legally binding approach to further developing the application of the Convention to GMOs, including through possible instruments, to select the most appropriate options and to develop these for consideration and possible decision or adoption by the Parties at their 2nd meeting. The 2nd meeting of the Working Group on GMOs takes place on 1-3 October 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting agenda and relevant documents (in English, French and Russian) are available at http://www.unece.org/env/pp/gmo.htm or contact [email protected] for more information.

04/09/2003