Side Event

Beyond Access: What you need to know about the User side of ABS

Organizer
Fridtjof Nansen Institute

Date and Time
9 October 2007 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS WG 5)

Presentation of the results of a legal study on the obligations of users and user countries under the CBD, and the legal obstacles that still prevent the utilization of user-country law as a tool for ABS Implementation.