Activity 3: Develop and implement national legislation
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Component 1: Develop national legislation
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Enhance plant protection laws and policies, to include the protection of biodiversity against the impacts from IAS: IPPC 7th ICPM, section 12.1, 148, 7a
- Ensure that relevant laws and provisions do not inadvertently constrain the use of appropriate measures to address IAS: CBD Decision VIII/27, 64
- Review policy and legislation in light of the IAS Guiding Principles: CBD Decision VI/23, 10c and CBD Decision VI/23, Annex (IAS Guiding Principles) SEE COMMENTARY 1
- Consider the international cooperation guidelines when establishing or developing policy and legal frameworks relating to wetlands: Ramsar Resolution VII.19, 11 and Ramsar Resolution VII.19, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 2
Use TEMATEA issue-based modules resource when developing and implementing mutually supportive activities among biodiversity-related conventions: Ramsar Resolution X.11, 24.
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Develop or maintain necessary legislation and/or regulatory provisions for the protection of threatened species and populations: CBD Article 8k
- Implement measures to reduce the impacts of climate change on migratory species: CMS Resolution 8.13, 3 SEE COMMENTARY 3
- Consider biological diversity during the development of new legislation and regulatory frameworks: CBD Decision V/18, 1c
- Formalise procedures for impact assessment of wetland ecosystems in policy, legal, institutional and organizational arrangements: Ramsar Resolution VII.16, 10
- Make sure that legislative and regulatory measures assure the survival of the World Heritage properties and its protection against change that might negatively impact the outstanding universal value: WHC Operational Guidelines II.F, 98
- Take legal, scientific, technical, administrative and financial measures to protect the heritage: WHC Operational Guidelines I.C, 15f
- Enact and harmonize environmental laws on the management of forest resources including shared mountain eco-system: MOU of CEM Article VII 1e
- Enact and harmonize environmental laws on Lake Victoria systems and other shared natural resources such as rivers and wetlands: MOU of CEM Article VII 1c
- Enact and harmonize environmental laws on the management for marine and coastal environment: MOU of CEM Article VII 1j
- Provide protection of population listed in column A of Table 1: AEWA Annex 3, Action Plan 2.1 SEE COMMENTARY 6
Component 2: Implement national legislation
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Implement the Strategic Plan by developing guidance, promoting protocols and actions to prevent, control and eradicate IAS: Ramsar Resolution IX.8, 10 and Ramsar Resolution IX.8, Annex (Strategic Plan for the Ramsar Convention) SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Review and implement laws and policies regulating the introduction of aquatic biota for aquaculture to control the accidental movement of species for example through ballast water, to avoid introduction of invasive and/or alien species: Ramsar Resolution IX.4, 34
- Implement the Strategic Plan by developing guidance and promoting protocols and actions to prevent, control and eradicate IAS: Ramsar Resolution VIII.25, 8 and Ramsar Resolution VIII. 25, Annex (Strategic Plan for the Ramsar Convention) SEE COMMENTARY 5
- Develop capacity for the identification of new IAS and the promotion and enforcement of corresponding legislation and best practice management: Ramsar Resolution VII.14, 18e
Implement the Strategic Plan by developing guidance and promoting procedures and actions to prevent, control and eradicate IAS: Ramsar Resolution X.1 and Ramsar Resolution X.1 Annex (Strategic Plan 2009-2015 for the Ramsar Convention). SEE COMMENTARY 7
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Implement the ecosystem approach with respect to local conditions and in accordance with national legislation CBD Decision VII/11, 3
Component 3: Establish appropriate legal capacity and structure
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Assess the need for stricter legislation to prevent unwanted introductions between distinct regions of the same state or islands of the same archipelago: 22nd meeting of the Bern Convention Steering Committee, Recommendation 91
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Establish appropriate legal and administrative structures to ensure that management plans are implemented: Ramsar Resolution V.7, 10
Establish or strengthen mechanisms for involving subnational agencies in the implementation of the Ramsar Convention: Ramsar Resolution, X.29,13 AND Ramsar Resoluion X.29, Annex (Summary of the general functions of national implementing agencies and related bodies)
Nominate focal points for the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation: CBD Decision IX/3, 1 (a)
Include and implement national capacity-development plans for the implementation of national biodiversity strategies and action plans: CBD Decision IX/8, 8, (l)
Establish or strengthen national institutional arrangements for the promotion, coordination and monitoring of the implementation of the national biodiversity strategy and action plans: CBD Decision IX/8, 8, (o)
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