<font face="arial" size="2"><p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">See below for a message from the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Cindy Opitz<br />SPNHC Secretary<br />email: secretary@spnhc.org<br />web: spnhc.org<br />Museum of Natural History<br />11 Macbride Hall<br />The University of Iowa<br />Iowa City IA 52242<br />(319) 335-0481</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /><br />-----Original Message-----<br />From: "Regina Kipper" <regina.kipper@cbd.int><br />Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 2:31pm<br />To: "Beatriz Gomez" <beatriz.gomez@cbd.int>, "Valerie Normand" <valerie.normand@cbd.int><br />Subject: CBD notifications related to the Nagoya Protocol<br /><br /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">On behalf of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, I would like to draw your attention to the following CBD notifications related to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing which have been issued recently:</p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3;">Notification 2019-024: Submission of views and information further to decisions NP-3/13 on Article 10 of the Nagoya Protocol. The notification is available at the following link: <a href="https://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2019/ntf-2019-024-abs-en.pdf">https://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2019/ntf-2019-024-abs-en.pdf</a>.</li>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3;">Notification 2019-025: Submission of views and information further to decision NP-3/14 on Article 4, Paragraph 4, of the Nagoya Protocol. The notification is available at the following link: <a href="https://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2019/ntf-2019-025-abs-en.pdf"> https://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2019/ntf-2019-025-abs-en.pdf</a>.</li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Thank you in advance for disseminating this information to those who may be interested. </p>
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