28 February 2011: The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has made available a new training tool for the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH).

The training site allows BCH users to familiarize themselves with the functioning of the BCH’s management center without altering the content of the official BCH. Users can submit records for training purposes and register, edit and check the status of submissions exactly as if they were using the official BCH. Changes made to the training site will not affect the official BCH site and will not be available to non-registered users. Changes will remain visible to all training site users for seven days. [Launch of Training Site]