The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity has just announced the launch of a new central registry of living modified organisms (LMOs) in the framework of the Biosafety Clearing House of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, including information on the transformation event, gene insert and characteristics of the modification and its unique identification code (if available). Links to all decisions that refer to one of these organisms are provided at the bottom of each LMO record accessible through the registry. It currently contains 201 records. See http://bch.biodiv.org/news/news.shtml or contact [email protected] for more information.

08/07/2006