13/05/2013 The purpose of this Notification is to bring to your attention the decision by the Governing Body to establish, in the forthcoming biennium, an Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group to enhance the functioning of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing of the Treaty. The Terms of Reference of the Working Group are contained in Part IV of Resolution 2/2013. Each Region shall nominate, at the latest by December 2013, the Contracting Parties which shall be Members of the Working Group. NEW DEADLINE: 28 FEBRUARY 2014.