Overview of National and Regional Measures on Access and Benefit Sharing: Challenges and Opportunities in Implementing the Nagoya Protocol, 3rd Ed
2014 – Centre for International Sustainable Development Law – Available here Global Overview of ABS Measures_FINAL_SBSTTA18
Jorge Cabrera Medaglia, Frederic Perron-Welch, and Freedom-Kai Phillips
This third edition of the CISDL study reviews the ABS measures in countries from Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, the South Pacific, Africa, Europe, and North America as well as the regional measures of the Andean Community, the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the African Union (AU), the European Union (EU), and the Nordic countries. It examines relevant laws and policies, and their provisions on scope, prior informed consent, mutually agreed terms on benefit-sharing, compliance, and monitoring and enforcement, as well as any access agreements that have been granted, or relevant experience gained in the implementation of ABS measures. It also presents a discussion and conclusions on the main legislative challenges to implementing the Protocol.
This was launched at Third meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing (ICNP-3), 24 – 28 February 2014 – Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea.