On 30 March 2007, the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS) held a preparatory meeting for the eighth meeting of the Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (UNICPOLOS-8), scheduled to take place in June 2007 in New York, US.

Participants discussed the draft provisional agenda for the meeting prepared by the Co-Chairpersons Ambassador Cristián Maquieira (Chile) and Lorraine Ridgeway (Canada), including the proposed areas of concentration for the discussion panel on “Marine genetic resources” (IISD Sources).