The 2nd meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP/2) takes place from 30 May to 3 June 2005 in Montreal, Canada. Sixteen official documents (available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish) and 10 information documents (English only) are currently available. Official documents recently put on the web include those on risk assessment and risk management; handling, transport, packaging and identification of Living Modified Organisms; socio-economic considerations; and the report of the meeting of the Open-ended Technical Expert Group on Identification Requirements of Living Modified Organisms intended for direct use as Food or Feed, or for Processing (LMOs-FFP) that took place on 16-18 March 2005 in Montreal, Canada. See http://www.biodiv.org/doc/meeting.aspx?mtg=MOP-02 or contact [email protected] for further information.

09/05/2005