 |
Law-ref.org | Convention on Biological Diversity |
Site search
Sister sites
concerne [Global Index]
... Concerned that biological diversity is being significantly reduced by certain human activities, ...
ARTICLE-6: General Measures for Conservation and Sustainable Use [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) Develop national strategies, plans or programmes for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity or adapt for this purpose existing strategies, plans or programmes which shall reflect, inter alia, the measures set out in this Convention relevant to the Contracting Party concerned; and ...
ARTICLE-14: Impact Assessment and Minimizing Adverse Impacts [go to this ARTICLE]
... (e) Promote national arrangements for emergency responses to activities or events, whether caused naturally or otherwise, which present a grave and imminent danger to biological diversity and encourage international cooperation to supplement such national efforts and, where appropriate and agreed by the States or regional economic integration organizations concerned, to establish joint contingency plans. ...
ARTICLE-19: Handling of Biotechnology and Distribution of its Benefits [go to this ARTICLE]
... 4. Each Contracting Party shall, directly or by requiring any natural or legal person under its jurisdiction providing the organisms referred to in paragraph 3 above, provide any available information about the use and safety regulations required by that Contracting Party in handling such organisms, as well as any available information on the potential adverse impact of the specific organisms concerned to the Contracting Party into which those organisms are to be introduced. ...
ARTICLE-23: Conference of the Parties [go to this ARTICLE]
... (e) Consider amendments to any protocol, as well as to any annexes thereto, and, if so decided, recommend their adoption to the parties to the protocol concerned; ...
ARTICLE-27: Settlement of Disputes [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. In the event of a dispute between Contracting Parties concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention, the parties concerned shall seek solution by negotiation. ...
... 1. In the event of a dispute between Contracting Parties concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention, the parties concerned shall seek solution by negotiation. ...
... 2. If the parties concerned cannot reach agreement by negotiation, they may jointly seek the good offices of, or request mediation by, a third party. ...
... 5. The provisions of this Article shall apply with respect to any protocol except as otherwise provided in the protocol concerned. ...
ARTICLE-29: Amendment of the Convention or Protocols [go to this ARTICLE]
... 4. Ratification, acceptance or approval of amendments shall be notified to the Depositary in writing. Amendments adopted in accordance with paragraph 3 above shall enter into force among Parties having accepted them on the ninetieth day after the deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval by at least two thirds of the Contracting Parties to this Convention or of the Parties to the protocol concerned, except as may otherwise be provided in such protocol. Thereafter the amendments shall enter into force for any other Party on the ninetieth day after that Party deposits its instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval of the amendments. ...
ARTICLE-30: Adoption and Amendment of Annexes [go to this ARTICLE]
... (c) On the expiry of one year from the date of the communication of the adoption by the Depositary, the annex shall enter into force for all Parties to this Convention or to any protocol concerned which have not submitted a notification in accordance with the provisions of subparagraph (b) above. ...
... 4. If an additional annex or an amendment to an annex is related to an amendment to this Convention or to any protocol, the additional annex or amendment shall not enter into force until such time as the amendment to the Convention or to the protocol concerned enters into force. ...
ARTICLE-32: Relationship between this Convention and Its Protocols [go to this ARTICLE]
... 2. Decisions under any protocol shall be taken only by the Parties to the protocol concerned. Any Contracting Party that has not ratified, accepted or approved a protocol may participate as an observer in any meeting of the parties to that protocol. ...
ARTICLE-35: Accession [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. This Convention and any protocol shall be open for accession by States and by regional economic integration organizations from the date on which the Convention or the protocol concerned is closed for signature. The instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Depositary. ...
ARTICLE-Annex_II-Part_1: Arbitration [go to this ARTICLE]
... The claimant party shall notify the secretariat that the parties are referring a dispute to arbitration pursuant to Article 27. The notification shall state the subject-matter of arbitration and include, in particular, the articles of the Convention or the protocol, the interpretation or application of which are at issue. If the parties do not agree on the subject matter of the dispute before the President of the tribunal is designated, the arbitral tribunal shall determine the subject matter. The secretariat shall forward the information thus received to all Contracting Parties to this Convention or to the protocol concerned. ...
... The arbitral tribunal shall render its decisions in accordance with the provisions of this Convention, any protocols concerned, and international law. ...
ARTICLE-Annex_II-Part_2: Conciliation [go to this ARTICLE]
... A conciliation commission shall be created upon the request of one of the parties to the dispute. The commission shall, unless the parties otherwise agree, be composed of five members, two appointed by each Party concerned and a President chosen jointly by those members. ...