Attachment
United Kingdom
Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
THE PARTIES TO THIS SUPPLEMENTARY PROTOCOL,
BEING Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Protocol’,
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT Principle 13 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development,
REAFFIRMING the precautionary approach contained in Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development,
RECOGNIZING the need to provide for appropriate response measures where there is damage or sufficient likelihood of damage, consistent with the Protocol,
RECALLING Article 27 of the Protocol,
HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
DONE at Nagoya on this fifteenth day of October two thousand and ten.
- 1Objective
- 2Use of terms
- 3Scope
- 4Causation
- 5Response measures
- 6Exemptions
- 7Time limits
- 8Financial limits
- 9Right of recourse
- 10Financial security
- 11Responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts
- 12Implementation and relation to civil liability
- 13Assessment and review
- 14Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol
- 15Secretariat
- 16Relationship with the Convention and the Protocol
- 17Signature
- 18Entry into force
- 19Reservations
- 20Withdrawal
- 21Authentic texts