Harmonization of Reporting for Bio-diversity related Conventions

At its first meeting on 22 January 2001, the Environmental Management Group (EMG) discussed the issue of harmonization of national reporting and agreed to establish an Issue Management Group (IMG)dealing with this issue (Decision 3). UNEP was invited to serve as task manager, focusing on biodiversity-related conventions while considering the relevance of biodiversity-related aspects of other Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs). The IMG was asked to look at this issue comprehensively, taking into account issues such as the best use of lessons learned, the composition of the group and the number of the countries to be used in a pilot phase.

• Communication to the EMG meeting on 10 October 2001 
• Harmonisation of information management and reporting for biodiversity-related treaties
  Draft IMG paper presented to the EMG meeting 10 October 2001
• Annexes to the IMG paper 
• EMG Harmonisation Action Plan
• Report of the Harmonisation IMG to the 6th Meeting of the EMG, 06 February 2004 

WCMC website on Harmonization of National Reporting