The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Reconciling Trade in Biotechnology with Environment & Development Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	About the authors
	Chronology of events
	Acronyms and abbreviations
Pt. I	Background: the road to the Cartagena Protocol and beyond
1	Negotiating the biosafety protocol: the international process	3
2	The road to the biosafety protocol	23
3	A mandate for a biosafety protocol: the Jakarta negotiations	34
4	The Biosafety Working Group (BSWG) process: A personal account from the chair	44
5	The extraordinary meeting of the Conference of the Parties (ExCOP)	62
6	The follow-up process and the Intergovernmental Committee for the Cartagena Protocol (ICCP)	76
7	Scientific aspects of the biosafety debate	83
Pt. II	The making of the protocol: actors' perspectives on the negotiations
8	United States	95
9	Canada	105
10	Ethiopia	115
11	Jamaica	124
12	Brazil	129
13	Philippines	138
14	Seychelles	146
15	Iran	155
16	China	160
17	European Union	166
18	Switzerland	186
19	Norway	193
20	Japan	200
21	Mexico	207
22	Central and Eastern Europe	212
23	Colombia	218
24	United Kingdom	230
25	Canada	237
26	European Commission	244
27	Greenpeace International	251
28	Third World Network	263
29	Environment Business & Development Group	268
30	Global Industry Coalition	273
Pt. III	Key elements of the protocol
31	Definitions	281
32	Scope	289
33	Advance informed agreement procedures	299
34	Commodities	321
35	Risk assessment	329
36	Documentation	338
37	Capacity-building and the Biosafety Clearing-House	344
38	Non-parties	351
39	Socio-economic considerations	361
40	Liability and redress	366
41	Liability: 'No Liability, No Protocol'	371
42	The financial mechanism	385
43	Legal and institutional issues	394
44	Annexes	402
45	The precautionary principle	410
46	The relationship with other international agreements: an EU perspective	423
47	The relationship with other agreements: much ado about a savings clause	438
Pt. IV	Implications for environment, trade and development: an assessment
48	Prospects for international environmental law	457
49	Implications for trade law and policy: towards convergence and integration	467
50	The significance of the protocol for WTO dispute settlement	482
51	A developing-country perspective	497
52	The Global Environment Facility and the protocol	506
53	Conclusion	512
Pt. V	Appendices
A1	Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity: full text	523
A2	Protocol on biosafety: draft negotiation text (excerpts)	550
A3	Article 19 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (1992): handling of biotechnology and distribution of its benefits	553
A4	The 'Jakarta mandate' (1995): decision II/5 of the Conference of the Parties	554
A5	Further reading on international biosafety	558
	Glossary	559
	Index	564