On 2-4 December 2019, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Montreal) hosted a meeting of the Informal Advisory Committee on the Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS) Clearing-House. The Secretariat presented a progress report on the goals of the Clearing-House, which is actively developing and improving in response to user requests. The experts discussed emerging technical issues and problems. New functions were presented for data sampling and presentation them in the form of infographics, as well as Bioland and BioBridge tools for sharing of information between the Global and National Clearing-Houses.