Notification 2016-073

Dear Madam/Sir, I refer to Notification 2015-068, issued on 15 June 2015, in response to paragraph 15 of decision XII/2 B in which the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity requests the Executive Secretary to propose, in collaboration with the informal advisory committee to the clearing-house mechanism (CHM-IAC), a process to grant, at the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth meetings of the Conference of the Parties, subject to the availability of resources, an award to the Parties that have made the most significant progress in the establishment or further development of their national clearing-house mechanisms. This notification is available online at www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2015/ntf-2015-068-chm-award-en.pdf. Through this notification, each Party was invited to submit a questionnaire about the status of its national clearing-house mechanism as well as its plans to improve it. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the Parties that have submitted this valuable information. Furthermore, this notification indicated that there would be a second questionnaire to assess the progress made in the development of national clearing-house mechanisms between 1 July 2015 and 30 June 2016. This second questionnaire is annexed to the present notification, and I kindly invite each Party to complete and return it by e mail to secretariat@cbd.int by 31 July 2016 under the subject "CHM Award" Alternatively, this second questionnaire can be filled online at https://form.jotform.com/61547081247254. Should you need any further information on this matter, please do not hesitate to contact the CHM team by e mail at chm@cbd.int.

Executive Scretary

To: CBD and CHM National Focal Points