Annual report of the Expert Group on Technology Transfer for 2006. Note by the Chair of the Expert Group on Technology Transfer.
The terms of reference of the Expert Group on Technology Transfer (EGTT), contained in the appendix to the annex to decision 4/CP.7, require the EGTT to report on its work each year to the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and to propose a programme of work for the following year for approval by the SBSTA. This note reports on the intersessional activities of the EGTT for 2006; a working session and a special meeting held in Brussels, Belgium, in March 2006; its ninth meeting, held in Bonn, Germany, in May 2006; and its tenth meeting, held in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2006. The Conference of the Parties, at its twelfth session, will review the progress of work and the terms of reference of the EGTT, including, if appropriate, its status and continuation. Therefore this annual report does not provide a programme of work for 2007, but instead recommends a continuation of activities as a logical follow-on to the work programme for 2006, by emphasizing the work to be done in the immediate future so as to keep the momentum of the technology transfer work under the Convention.