I. Identification of Outstanding ABS Issues

Level of national implementation

National Implementation
( en , fr )
Author: Valérie Normand

National access laws (challenges), continuing monitoring and enforcement issues

The Challenges in the implementation of the Philippine ABS Regulations: Monitoring and Enforcement of Bioprospecting Activities in the Philippines
( en , fr )
Author: Paz J. Benavidez II

National Access Laws: Challenges, Benefit-sharing, Monitoring and Enforcement
( en , fr )
Author: Geoff Burton

Developing and Implementing ABS Regulations in the Pacific Rim Region: Issues and Challenges
( en , fr )
Author: Santiago Carrizosa

Briefing Note: National access laws (challenges), continuing monitoring and enforcement issues
( en , fr )
Author: Robert J. L. Lettington

Discussants

Access laws: challenges in implementation, monitoring and enforcement
( en , fr )
Author: Manuel Ruiz

Access to genetic resources and intellectual property rights: what is biopiracy?

What is Biopiracy?
( en , fr )
Author: Graham Dutfield

Discussants

Access to genetic resources and intellectual property rights: What is biopiracy?
( en , fr )
Author: Stephen Smith

II. Vision and Nature of an International Regime: Goals, Challenges, Gaps and Role of CBD and Other Bodies

Vision and Nature of an International Regime

Vision and Nature of an International Regime on ABS
( en , fr )
Author: François Pythoud

The International Regime from an Implementation Perspective: What Legislation Can (and Cannot) Do … and How this Affects the Vision and Nature of the Regime
( en , fr )
Author: Tomme Rosanne Young

The International Regime, as it Applies to Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (PGRFA)
( en , fr )
Authors: Stephen Smith and Tom Jacob

Vision and nature of an international regime: minimum requirements and options from a practical developing country perspective
( en , fr )
Author: Robert J. L. Lettington

Discussants

International regime on ABS: Exploring new options for achieving CBD-related ABS objective
( en , fr )
Author: Stanley S. Atsali

The International Regime - A missing Element
( en , fr )
Author: Geoff Burton

Nature of an International ABS Regime
( en , fr )
Author: Jock Langford

Towards an International Regime that Stresses Infrastructural Capacity Development in the Source Countries as a Key Factor for Effective Access and Benefit Sharing in Bioprospecting
( en , fr )
Author: Augustine B. Njamnshi

A few thoughts on the international regime and provider/user measures
( en , fr )
Author: Nicola Notaro

III. Specific issues for consideration in the elaboration of the IR

Intellectual Property Issues (The relevance of existing IPR issues for the development of the IR, How should IPRs be addressed in an international regime?)

Interface with Existing IP System & Limits and Opportunities for Existing IP Rights

Disclosure of the Source of Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge in Patent Applications
( en , fr )
Author: Martin A. Girsberger,

The Interface with Existing Intellectual Property Systems & Limits and Opportunities for Existing Intellectual Property Rights
( en , fr )
Author: Kim Connolly-Stone

Four Reforms for Wider Benefit-sharing
( en , fr )
Author: William Kingston

Access, Benefit Sharing and the interface with existing IP systems: Limits and Opportunities
( en , fr )
Author: Ruth L. Okediji

Discussants

Pharmaceutical Industry Scenarios and Questions Relating to Patent Disclosure
( en , fr )
Author: European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Associations (EFPIA)

Biodiversity-based Patent Term Extension: An Opportunity for Using the Existing IP System to Support ABS
( en , fr )
Author: Jock Langford

Intellectual Property Issues: A revision of the current UPOV PVP is required to support the conservation, sustainable development and benefit sharing goals of the CBD
( en , fr )
Author: Stephen Smith

IPRs and the International Regime on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing
( en , fr )
Author: Jesús Vega

Limits to rights over genetic resources, the issue of derivatives. Defining the line between tangible and intangible property rights

Genetic resources and property rights. Tangible and intangible property rights. The issue of derivatives
( en , fr )
Author: Fernando Casas-Castañeda

Discussants

A plant chemist’s perspective on the “problem” of derivatives
( en , fr )
Author: Kelly Bannister

Derivatives
( en , fr )
Author: Geoff Burton

“Genetic Resources” and “Utilisation of Genetic Resources”: A legislative view
( en , fr )
Author: Tomme Rosanne Young

New Forms of Sui Generis Protection relevant for the IR (GR and/or TK)

Sui Generis Protection of Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge
( en , fr )
Author: Jock Langford

New Forms of Sui Generis Protection
( en , fr )
Author: Graham Dutfield

Discussants

New Forms of Sui Generis Protection Relevant for the International Regime (GR and/or TK)
( en , fr )
Author: Dr Shakeel Bhatti

Indigenous peoples: Community-level PIC for accessing TK and genetic resources, feasibility and good practices

Customary law as the basis for Prior Informed Consent of local and indigenous communities
( en , fr )
Author: Brendan Tobin

Indigenous and local communities: Community-level prior informed consent for accessing traditional knowledge and genetic resources
( en , fr )
Author: Peigi Wilson

Discussants

Lessons for ABS: Academic Policies, Community Protocols and Community-level PIC
( en , fr )
Author: Kelly Bannister

The road to effective prior informed consent for accessing the traditional knowledge and genetic resources of Indigenous and local communities in Colombia
( en , fr )
Author: Gabriel Ricardo Nemogá Soto

Measures to ensure compliance with CBD and access legislation. Stakeholders. Scientists as users and providers including Codes of conduct/awareness

Mechanisms for Compliance with ABS by the Academic Research Community (Canada)
( en , fr )
Author: Dr. Kelly Bannister

Scientists as users and providers: A South African Perspective
( en , fr )
Author: Dr Maureen Wolfson

Discussants

Relevance of Genetic Resources to the Pharmaceutical Industry
( en , fr )
Author: Susan Finston

The Smithsonian Institution: The life of natural history museum specimens
( en , fr )
Authors: Leonard P Hirsch and Ana Cristina Villegas

Access and Benefit-sharing: Role of Scientists
( en , fr )
Author: Jock Langford

IV. Instruments/tools/measures which could assist in achieving the International Regime including Mechanisms for Monitoring and/or Verification

Certification systems

Product and process certification including certificate of legal provenance/source/origin

Elements for the design of a Certificate of Legal Provenance
( en , fr )
Author: José Carlos Fernández

Certificates of Origin, Legal Provenance and Source: mutually exclusive or complementary elements of a comprehensive certification scheme
( en , fr )
Authors: Brendan Tobin, David Cunningham and Kazuo Watanabe

Discussants

Certificate of origin/source/provenance
( en , fr )
Author: Mariana Bellot

ABS Certificate System
( en , fr )
Author: Jock Langford

A Simple Solution: Using Certificates of Legal Provenance as a Workable Component of a Functional Regime on ABS
( en , fr )
Author: Tomme Rosanne Young

Uses, benefits, tracking and trade-offs - a botanical collections perspective
( en , fr )
Author: Kate Davis

Company conduct, standards and certification

ABS Management Tool Project: Summary Project Description
( en , fr )
Authors: Jorge Cabrera, George Greene and Tom Rotherham

Tropical biodiversity, an industrial perspective
( en , fr )
Author: Lene Lange

Discussants

Company conduct, standards and certification
( en , fr )
Author: Peigi Wilson

Measures and Compliance mechanisms for key actors (the proposed + any other)

Government user measures - incentives for compliance

Government user measures - incentives for compliance
( en , fr )
Author: Birthe Ivars

User Measures in Provider Countries: Use of Simplified Procedures and its Trade Implications
( en , fr )
Author: Christian Lopez-Silva

Benefit Sharing

Benefit sharing as a goal of the IR (opportunities, kinds of benefits, successful experiences and why, lessons learned, transaction costs, limits to benefit sharing)

Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing
( en , fr )
Author: Mohamad bin Osman

Benefit-Sharing as a Goal of the International Regime: Lessons Learned from Genetic Resources Research at Yellowstone National Park
( en , fr )
Author: Preston T. Scott

Discussants

Benefit-sharing as Process
( en , fr )
Author: Kelly Bannister

Benefit Sharing
( en , fr )
Author: Jock Langford