The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity is conducting regional workshops on the Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress. Their purpose is to raise awareness and understanding about the objective and provisions of the Supplementary Protocol and to identify needs and requirements by Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety with a view to expedite the early entry into force and implementation of the Supplementary Protocol. The Central and Eastern Europe workshop took place on 16-17 June 2011 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, while the African workshop, organized in collaboration with the African Union Commission, took place on 21-22 July 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. See the documents and reports of the workshops at http://bch.cbd.int/protocol/supplementary/NKL_workshops.shtml or contact [email protected] for more information.