Background
Article 29 of the Nagoya Protocol provides that each Party shall monitor the implementation of its obligations under the Protocol, and shall, at intervals and in the format to be determined by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (COP-MOP), report to the COP-MOP on measures that it has taken to implement the Protocol.
The COP-MOP agreed on guidelines and format for submission and requested Parties to submit an interim national report on the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol, twelve months prior to the third meeting of the COP-MOP and through the ABS Clearing-House. Non-Parties are welcome to submit relevant information (decision NP-1/3).
The deadline for submission is 1 November 2017.
Instructions
Please fill in the submission form and complete all fields following the instructions given. Certain fields are mandatory and indicated with an asterisk(*). The review of the form will highlight the mandatory fields that need to be filled before it is possible to publish the record. The record can be saved as a draft. Frequently saving of records is recommended, especially in case of intermittent internet connections.
It is possible to introduce information one of the six official UN languages. Select languages using the button located at the top left of the page and for each submission field, a text boxes will appear in the languages selected.
Only if not technically feasible, Parties may resort to offline submissions to the ABS Clearing-House. Offline submissions should use the protected form, as provided for download on the ABS Clearing-House in MS Word format: en | fr | es | ru | ar | zh It is recommended that countries send the report via email to the Secretariat (secretariat@cbd.int), and include a scanned copy of the last page signed by the ABS Clearing-House publishing authority.
For more information please see:
Interim National Report Frequently Asked Questions
View the step-by-step guide for more information on how to submit the interim national report
