Conference of the Parties (COP) Background and Status The Conference of the Parties is the governing body of the Convention, and advances implementation of the Convention through the decisions it takes at its periodic meetings. To date the Conference of the Parties has held 12 ordinary meetings, and one extraordinary meeting (the latter, to adopt the Biosafety Protocol, was held in two parts). From 1994 to 1996, the Conference of the Parties held its ordinary meetings annually. Since then these meetings have been held somewhat less frequently and, following a change in the rules of procedure in 2000, will now be held every two years. The Twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity was held in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea from 6 - 17 October 2014. The Thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 13) will be held in in Los Cabos, Mexico, in November 2016. Meetings of the Conference of the Parties COP 12 - Twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, 6 - 17 October 2014 100 Documents 35 Decisions COP 11 - Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Hyderabad, India, 8 - 19 October 2012 125 Documents 33 Decisions COP 10 - Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, 18 - 29 October 2010 107 Documents 47 Decisions COP 9 - Ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Bonn, Germany, 19 - 30 May 2008 110 Documents 36 Decisions COP 8 - Eighth Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Curitiba, Brazil, 20 - 31 March 2006 106 Documents 34 Decisions COP 7 - Seventh Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 9 - 20 February 2004 94 Documents 36 Decisions COP 6 - Sixth Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity The Hague, Netherlands, 7 - 19 April 2002 114 Documents 32 Decisions COP 5 - Fifth Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Nairobi, Kenya, 15 - 26 May 2000 81 Documents 29 Decisions EXCOP 1 - First Extraordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Cartagena, Colombia & Montreal, Canada, 22 - 23 February 1999 & 24 - 28 January 2000 24 Documents 3 Decisions COP 4 - Fourth Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Bratislava, Slovakia, 4 - 15 May 1998 71 Documents 19 Decisions COP 3 - Third Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Buenos Aires, Argentina, 4 - 15 November 1996 112 Documents 27 Decisions COP 2 - Second Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Jakarta, Indonesia, 6 - 17 November 1995 56 Documents 23 Decisions COP 1 - First Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity Nassau, Bahamas, 28 November - 9 December 1994 33 Documents 13 Decisions The agenda of the meetings of the Conference of the Parties is very wide-ranging, reflecting the programme of work the Conference of the Parties has established for itself. At its first meeting, the Conference of the Parties decided on a medium-term programme of work for the period 1995-1997. Implementation of this programme has laid the groundwork for the long- term implementation of the Convention itself. In particular it has seen the development of a number of thematic work programmes, and identified a series of key cross-cutting issues relevant to all work programmes. The fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties established a programme of work to cover the period from then until the seventh meeting and, more importantly, established a process to review the operations of the Convention and set out a longer term programme of work. As part of this process, an intersessional meeting on the operations of the Convention was held in 1999, the results of which were reported to the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties and formed the basis for a decision on future operations of the Convention.
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