The sixth meeting of the Ad hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and related provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was held from 2-6 November 2009 in Montreal, Canada.

The Working Group adopted a series of recommendations, to be submitted to the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the CBD, to be held from 18-29 October 2010, in Nagoya, Japan. Among its main achievements, the Working Group worked towards concluding negotiations on an ethical code of conduct to ensure respect for the cultural and intellectual heritage of indigenous and local communities, and expressed detailed views on the international regime on access and benefit-sharing (ABS), for transmission to the eighth meeting of the Ad hoc Open-ended Working Group on ABS, held from 9-15 November 2009, in Montreal.
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