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Rio Conventions Timetable

Date	Event	Venue
20 Jan 08	COP-8 Bureau meeting	Montreal, Canada
21 Jan - 25 Jan 08	Sixth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (WGABS-6)	Geneva, Switzerland
10 Feb 2008	COP-8 Bureau meeting	Rome, Italy
11 Feb - 15 Feb 08	Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Protected Areas (WGPA-2)	Rome, Italy
14 Feb - 15 Feb 08	Liaison Group on Capacity-building for Biosafety	Montreal, Canada
17 Feb 08	SBSTTA Bureau meeting	Rome, Italy
18 Feb - 22 Feb 08	Thirteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-13)	Rome, Italy
26 Mar - 28 Mar 08	Joint Article 8(j) and Clearing-House Mechanism Capacity-Building Workshop on Networking and Information Exchange (Africa region)	TBD
11 May 08	COP-8 Bureau meeting	Bonn, Germany
12 May - 16 May 08	Fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP/MOP-4)	Bonn, Germany
18 May 08	COP-CMP Bureau meeting	Bonn, Germany
19 May - 30 May 08	Ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP-9)	Bonn, Germany
22 May 08	IBD 2008: International Day for Biological Diversity	Multiple Venues
28 May - 30 May 08	High Level Segment of COP-9	Bonn, Germany
02 Jun - 13 Jun 08	First sessional period in 2008
01 Dec - 12 Dec 08	Second sessional period in 2008