Recalling decision XIII/33, by which it decided that the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties would be held in China and that the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties would be held in Turkey,
1.Decides that the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol and the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol should be held in the last quarter of 2022;
2.Invites Parties from the Central and Eastern European region to notify the Executive Secretary of their offers to host the seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties as well as the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol and the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol;
3.Requests the Subsidiary Body on Implementation, in the light of its consideration of proposals for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, to prepare a proposal on the periodicity of meetings of the Conference of the Parties beyond the sixteenth meeting, for consideration and adoption by the Conference of the Parties at its fifteenth meeting.