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AALCC

Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee

ABS

Access and Benefit Sharing

ACRE

Advisory Committee on Releases into the Environment

ACTS

African Centre for Technology Studies

AIA

Advanced Informed Agreement

AOSIS

Association of Small Island Deveolopment States

AVHRR

Advanced very high resolution Radiometer

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BAZ

Bundesanstalt für Züchtungsforschung an Kulturpflanzen

BDP

Association of German Plant Breeders (Bund deutscher Pflanzenzüchter)

BE

Special Voluntary Trust Fund (for additional activities approved by the COP for the biennium 1999-2000)

BfN

Bundesamt für Naturschutz (Federal Office for Nature Conservation)

BMBau

Bundesministerium für Raumordnung, Bauwesen und Städtebau (Federal Ministry for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development

BMBF

Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology)

BMG

Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (Federal Ministry of Health)

BML

Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten (Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry)

BMU

Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit (Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety)

BMV

Bundesminiserium für Verkehr (Federal Ministry of Transport)

BMVEL

Bundesminiserium für Verbraucherschutz, Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture)

BMVg

Bundesministerium der Verteidigung (Federal Ministry of Defence)

BMZ

Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development)

BSPA

Baltic Sea Protected Area

BSWG

Ad Hoc Working Group on Biosafety

BY

Trust Fund for the Convention

BZ

Special Voluntary Trust Fund (for facilitating participation of Parties in the Convention process for the biennium 1999-2000)

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CATIE

Central American Agricultural Research and Training Centre

CBD

Convention on Biological Diversity

CCAMLR

Council on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

CCD

Convention to Combat Desertification

CFC

Chlorofluorocarbons

CGIAR

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

CGRFA

Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

CHM

Clearing House Mechanism

CIFOR

Centre for International Forestry Research (Research institute under the umbrella of the CGIAR)

CIS

Commonwealth of Independent States

CITES

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

CMS

Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals

COP 1

first Meeting of the COP (Nassau, Bahamas, 28 November-9 December, 1994)

COP 2

second Meeting of the COP (Jakarta, Indonesia, 6-17 November, 1995)

COP 3

third Meeting of the COP (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 4-15 November, 1996)

COP 4

fourth Meeting of the COP (Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 4-15 May, 1998)

COP 5

fifth Meeting of the COP (Nairobi, Kenya, 15-26 May, 2000)

COP 6

sixth Meeting of the COP (The Hague, Netherlands, 07-19 April, 2002)

COP

Conference of the Parties (to the CBD)

CORINE

Community Wide Coordination of Information on the Environment

CSD

Commission on Sustainable Development

CTE

Committee on Trade and Environment (WTO)

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DBU

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt

DFG

German Research Assciation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

DGfZ

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Züchtungskunde

DIB

German Association of Biotechnology Industries (Deutsche Industrievereinigung Biotechnologie)

DNR

Deutscher Naturschutzring

DRD

Deliberate Release Directive

DSM

Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen