3 March 2014: Meeting from 24-28 February 2014, in Pyeongchang, the Republic of Korea, the third Meeting of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ICNP 3) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a series of recommendations in preparation for the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (COP/MOP 1) to the Protocol.

ICNP 3 adopted recommendations on: the rules of procedure for the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (COP/MOP); monitoring and reporting; capacity building; the draft agenda for COP/MOP 1; the Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS) Clearing-House; sectoral and cross-sectoral model contractual clauses, voluntary codes of conduct, guidelines, best practices and standards; a global multilateral benefit-sharing mechanism; and procedures and mechanisms on compliance. The meeting also exchanged views on the state of implementation of the Protocol, hearing from countries, regions and stakeholders on efforts to operationalize the Protocol.

Held immediately following a capacity-building workshop on the ABS Clearing-House, which took place on 23 February 2014, the meeting succeeded in forwarding a manageable workload to the future COP/MOP. The informal advisory committee to the ABS Clearing-House was mandated to continue providing technical guidance to the Secretariat with respect to practical preparations for entry into force. On compliance procedures, the meeting continued deliberations and made significant progress in producing a cleaner and more streamlined document, while leaving several key questions, particularly regarding participation or input by indigenous and local communities (ILCs), to be resolved by future Parties to the Protocol. [IISD RS meeting coverage] [UNEP Press Release on meeting outcome] [UNEP Press Release on opening of meeting]