German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation:
The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity is a novel instrument in international nature conservation.
The Protocol is a binding international agreement on access to genetic resources and traditional knowledge associated with them and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their utilisation.
The Nagoya Protocol was adopted on 29 October 2010 at the Tenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in order to further elaborate the obligations on access and benefit sharing (ABS) under the CBD.
The Nagoya Protocol entered into force on 12 October 2014.
Expeditions must follow the rules and regulations of the NAGOYA PROTOCOL.
PI's need to make themselves familiar with the obligations of the protocol and act accordingly.
“Genetic resource“ means genetic material of actual or potential value
„Genetic material“ means any material of plant, animal, microbial or other origin containing functional units of heredity
“Utilisation of genetic resources” means to conduct research and development on the genetic and/or biochemical composition of genetic resources, including any application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof”
“Derivative” means a naturally occurring biochemical compound resulting from the genetic expression or metabolism of biological or genetic resources, even if it does not contain functional units of heredity”
What does that mean in practice?
More information is accessible here:
https://intranet.awi.de/infrastruktur/logistik-forschungsplattformen/nagoya-protokoll.html
German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation:
https://www.bfn.de/themen/nagoya-protokoll-nutzung-genetischer-ressourcen.html