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Intellectual property rights in plant varieties: International legal regimes and policy options for national governments
… 29 2.3. The TRIPs Agreement … mandatory or permissive policy options in a revised TRIPs Agreement ................................................... … II also includes a discussion of so-called “TRIPs plus” bilateral and regional agreements as they relate to plant …
IUCN Information Papers on Marine Genetic Resources
… instruments and the possible development of a multilateral agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of … two access approaches/concepts can be distinguished – a bilateral and a multilateral approach. Bilateral approach A bilateral approach is well established …
Explanatory guide to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… IPR – Intellectual Property Right MTA – Material Transfer Agreement PGR – Plant Genetic Resources PGRFA – Plant Genetic … forced breeders and farmers to seek access to PGRFA on a bilateral basis and by practical difficulties of negotiating … benefit sharing, thereby avoiding the need to resort to bilateral negotiations over each trans- action. These …
An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing
… was adopted in Nagoya, Japan. Being a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity it is one … before, the ABS concept of the CBD is founded on a bilateral relationship between a provider of a genetic … be located in different countries. In such situations, a bilateral ABS approach may appear to some to be unjust, as it …
Plant genetic resources and food security: stakeholder perspectives on the international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
… interests at stake, players managed to come to an agreement on food and agriculture for the sake of food … particularly in relation to the application of any bilateral mechanisms for access, to and sharing of benefits … technical and legal difficulties (Hardon et al, 1994) in bilateral access systems such as those provided under the …
A moving target : Genetic resources and options for tracking and monitoring their international flows
… Organization of the United Nations GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GMO genetically modified … of the University of Puerto Rico. Vogel argues that the bilateral, contractual approach stimulated by the CBD and … various scenarios in which PGRFA were exchanged under bilateral agree- ments, as compared to a multilateral system …
The legal framework for the management of animal genetic resources
… Principles .............................. 16 2.1.5 The WTO Agreement on … "TRIPS-plus" refers to any requirement, contained in bilateral agreements between Governments, which require … than the TRIPS Agreement. Free trade agreements, bilateral investment treaties, development aid programmes or …
ABS Elements. Elements to facilitate domestic implementation of Access and Benefit-Sharing for different subsectors of genetic resources for food and agriculture
… (CBD), adopted in 1992, is the first international agreement that addresses ABS in its objectives and … a set of predefined ABS standards over having to negotiate bilateral ABS agreements on a case-by-case basis. 60. The … accordance with the CBD.44 Such sharing shall be on MAT. Bilateral case-by-case negotiations of MAT for GRFA may …
Access to and use of marine genetic resources: understanding the legal framework
… the Nagoya Protocol in 2010, which is an additional agreement to the Convention that is expected to enter into … to secondly renegotiate a ‘commercial development agreement’ when there is a change of intent due to a new … (CNA). One of the consequences of the above described bilateral ABS approach is the involvement of state's …
Covering ABS: Addressing the need for sectoral, geographical,legal and international integration in the ABS regime - papers and studies of the ABS Project
… vested rights 91 8.3.4.1 Third-party impacts on the ABS agreement 91 8.3.4.2 Claims of non-compliance 91 8.3.4.3 … negotiations and result- ing framework to reflect a more ‘bilateral’ com- promise through which those most resistant to … or genetic resources. Howev- er, Lebanon has entered into bilateral treaties with some of its neighboring countries …