Czech Committee for the CBD
The Czech Committee for the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Scientific advisory Board as a Subsidiary and consultative Body for a successful implementation of the convention in the Czech Republic.Czech Committee for the CBD. This committee was established under the Ministry of the Environment in 1997. The Czech minister of the envi-ronment has approved the Rules of procedure of this committee. There are two main bodies. First is the Czech Committee for the CBD.
There are mainly representatives from other ministries who are respon-sible for the nature protection in the field of their administration (Ministry of the environment, Ministry of agriculture, M of education, youth and sports, M. of foreign affairs, M. of trade, M. of finance, M. of information technology, M. of transport, M. of health, M. of spatial planning, M. of culture, Botanical institute of the Czech Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, NGO – Organisation for Sus-tainable life and the NGO – representative from the Czech Committee for nature conservationists.
The Second Part is the Scientific Advisory Body (something like small SBSTTA); where are not policy representatives but experts, researches and other people from different research institutions, organisations, universities, faculties, etc. This part serves mainly as an Advisory Body and for providing necessary scientific advice in the field of Biological diversity and CBD. Some of them know the convention process very well.
Committee meets twice a year – very often before COP or SBSTTA to decide if all materials for the CBD meeting are in line with the national legislation.
