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ABS Elements. Elements to facilitate domestic implementation of Access and Benefit-Sharing for different subsectors of genetic resources for food and agriculture
… (MAT) and of voluntary codes of conduct, guidelines and best practices and/or standards in relation to ABS.9 The … contractual clauses, codes of conduct, guidelines and best practices and/or standards.10 Development of the … improvement of the operation of the ABS system through practice, self-perfection and innovation. Parties to the …
Contracting for ABS: The legal and scientific implications of bioprospecting contracts
… ‘Governing law’ 55 2.3.4.2 ‘Industry-wide custom and practice’ 56 2.3.4.3 Indigenous and traditional law 56 2.4 … and the pharmaceutical industry 274 7.2.3.2 It is in the best interest of researchers from industrialized countries to … Through this process, The ABS Series seeks to cre- ate the best possible basis of researched information on the …
Plant genetic resources and food security: stakeholder perspectives on the international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
… Treaty, international benefit-sharing is now working in practice, on the ground, for those actors who conserve and … ‘double speak’. At the end, the Chairman ruled it would be best to focus on identifying the elements and on deciding … their main argument, believing that such issues are best dealt with in the International Convention for the …
Explanatory guide to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… traits, and replanting only those that displayed the best characteristics. Part of this tradition of crop improvement has been the practice of exchanging seeds among farmers in order to … for the concept of Farmers’ Rights. Farmers’ Rights can best be implemented through ensuring the conservation, …
The legal framework for the management of animal genetic resources
… duck, guinea fowl, quail, ostrich.4 Breeds provide the best indication of total farm animal genetic diversity, in … consequent actions on a number of issues, such as: (1) the best use of both locally-adapted and exotic AnGR; (2) how to … minimally market-distorting ('green box' exemptions). In practice, developing countries do not exercise …
Intellectual property rights in plant varieties: International legal regimes and policy options for national governments
… between the rights of traditional farmers (whose practice of saving seeds provided the raw genetic materials … in plant varieties 24 propagation. (art. 6(1)(d)) In practice, what has been shown to be homogeneous is usually … protection, with other WTO Members requested to use their best efforts to furnish such information. The Council later …