WORLD FEDERATION FOR CULTURE COLLECTIONS: 400 affiliated ex-situ
microbial resource centres and their users, the WFCC offered its
collective expertise -- particularly as it involves
inventorying, monitoring, and national and property rights
issues -- in helping to establish appropriate measures. @HEAD2.5
= WORKING GROUP I Working Group I was responsible for addressing
the following - Conservation and sustainable use of biological
diversity: the full range of important national activities for
reducing the loss of biodiversity; overview of categories of
action supported by UNDP, the World Bank and UNEP in recent
years; and factors for setting national priorities; - Biosafety:
simultaneous action on (i) immediate action to enhance
biosafety, and (ii) consideration of an international instrument
on biosafety; and - Scientific and technical work between
sessions: tasks to be done prior to the first meeting of the COP
by an interim scientific and technical advisory committee
(ISTAC) or other designated body; number