1. T RAINING W ORKSHOP ON B IOSAFETY C LEARING -H OUSE FOR T HAILAND 18-19 December 2008 Bangkok, Thailand

2. BCH Central Portal and Finding Information in the BCH Mohammad Ilyas, IT-RA for Asia

3. OBJECTIVE Understand the various databases available on the BCH Central Portal Search the database available on the BCH Central Portal

4. How Presentation Case Studies

5. BCH Central Portal

6. Databases National Contacts Laws & Regulations Decisions & Declarations Capacity Building Roster of Experts

7. National Contacts Article 19  Requires a number of institutions  Institutional information are kept here

8. National Contacts National Focal Points  NFPs responsible to manage communication with Secretariat  Each record has contact details, phones, email

9. Competent National Authority  Information on CNAs  Each CNA entry contains contact information and a brief description of functions of the organization

10. National Biosafety Websites …. National Biosafety websites & databases  Information about National databases  Each entry contains a web address & brief description

11. Search National Biosafety Websites

12. Laws & Regulations  AIA Procedure, Article 11(5), Article 14  Parties must post information on their laws & regulations

13. Laws & Regulations National Laws, Regulations & Guidelines Article 20.3a  Make available laws, regulations and guidelines  Information required by parties on AIA

14. Laws & Regulations Bilateral, Regional & Multilateral Agreements Article 20.3b  Information about bilateral, regional and multilateral agreements  Additionally, use BCH to inform each other of any agreements, etc

15. Decisions & Declarations Under the relevant articles parties are responsible for posting information regarding relevant decisions and declarations on BCH

16. Decisions & Declarations Information about the AIA Procedure Information about final decisions taken by parties on LMOs Final decisions not covered in the above 2 Risk Assessments on LMOs Any Unique Identifiers for LMOs used in the BCH

17. Capacity Building Capacity Building Projects Country needs and priorities Outcomes and Lessons Learned Compendium of Training Courses Capacity Building Opportunities

18. Roster of Experts Conduct Risk Assessment Make informed decisions Develop National Human Resources Promote Institutional Strengthening Decision EM-I/3

19. Roster of Experts  Use & function  History  Procedures for nominating experts  Guidelines for operation of Roster

20. Reports on Biosafety Assignments Provides links to a database of reports on Biosafety Experts Assignments Reports on Biosafety Expert Assignments

21. Review questions What are the different databases on the BCH? Where would the NFPs, CNAs be found? Where would you find information about AIA procedures? Where are the Decisions, Declarations found? What is the role of the Roster of Experts database?