Acess is obtaining and then utilization if genetic resources Benefit sharing is giving a portion of benefit obtained from utilization of genetic resources by users to the providers.

1. Topic: Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic
Resources
Presented To:
Miss Naila
Presented By:
Sabahat Ali

2. What is Access and Benefit
Sharing?
 Access
 obtaining and use of genetic resources where they are
applicable
 (research purposes, development of new products).
 Benefit Sharing
 giving a portion of benefits obtained from utilization
of
 genetic resources by the users to the providers.
2

3. An international agreement on ABS 3
 The Nagoya Protocol on ABS was
adopted on
29 Oct , 2010 in Nagoya , Japan.
Objective:
 fair and equitable sharing of benefits
arising from utilization of genetic resources.

4. What are genetic resources? 4
• All living organisms (plants, animals and
microbes) carry genetic material potentially
useful to humans
• These resources can be taken from the wild,
domesticated or cultivated
• They are sourced from:
• Natural environments
• Human-made collections (e.g. botanical
gardens, genebanks, seed banks and
microbial culture collections)

5. Why are genetic resources
important?
•Can be used to develop a wide range of products and services
for human benefit
•The way in which genetic resources are accessed and how the
benefits arising from their use is shared can create incentives for
• the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
• the creation of a fairer and more equitable economy to
support sustainable development
5

6. Key elements of the Nagoya
Protocol
The ABC of ABS, three pillars of the Protocol:
• Access
• Benefit-sharing
• Compliance
Other key terms include:
Utilization
Users
Providers
 Prior Informed Consent (PIC)
• Mutually Agreed Terms (MAT)
6

7. The ABC of ABS explained
Access: decision to exercise sovereign rights for access to genetic
resources over which you have those rights.
Benefit-sharing: action of giving a portion of profits derived from the
use of human genetic resources to the resource providers.
Compliance: obligation for Parties to the Protocol to monitor the use
of genetic resources.
7

8. Key terms (1): utilization 8
 Protocol says: Research &
 Development on
biochemical components
 Research is always the first
step.
Protocol says:

9. Key terms (2): users
• Plant & animal breeding
• Biotechnology
• Pharmaceutical
• Cosmetics
• Applied research
9

10. Key terms (3): provider/providing
country
States have rights over their natural resources.
Laws within the provider country deterrmine rights over
geneetic resources at the national level, who has the
authority to grant access to genetic resources and who
shoulld be involved in the negotioon of MAT(mutually
agreed terms) with users.
•NB: every country can be a provider, and have users
10

11. Key terms (4): PIC and MAT
Prior informed consent (PIC)
The permission given by the competent national authority of
a provider country to a user prior to accessing genetic
resources, in line with an appropriate national legal and
institutional framework
Mutually agreed terms (MAT)
An agreement reached between the providers of genetic
resources and users on the conditions of access and use and
the benefits to be shared between both parties. It is a private
law contract.
11

12. Measures
 Contracting Parties are to take measures to ensure these
communities prior
informed consent , and fair and equitable benefit sharing , keeping in
mind
community laws and procedure as well as customary use and
exchange.
12

13. More information
Additional information can be found:
www.absfocalpoint.nl (in Dutch & English)
www.cbd.int/abs (in English)
http://abs-initiative.info/ (incl work in
Caribean region)
Please do not hesitate to contact Paul
and/or Léontine Crisson at EZ:
l.j.r.crisson@minez.nl / +31 646208066
13