The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing Access and Benefit-sharing 2025/2026 Small Grants Project Nagoya Protocol ABS under the GBF About the Nagoya ProtocolNagoya Protocol TextHistory Parties Becoming a Party List of PartiesNational information - country profilesKey Steps towards implementation Key Protocol issues ABS Clearing-House Assessment and reviewAwareness-raisingCapacity-building and developmentCompliance with the ProtocolCooperationDigital sequence information on genetic resourcesFinancial mechanismGlobal multilateral benefit-sharing mechanismModel contractual clauses, codes of conduct, guidelines and best practices and/or standardsMonitoring and reportingResource mobilizationSpecialized international ABS instruments COP-MOP COP-MOP Bureau COP-MOP decisionsOverview of Activities Activities and Communications Meetings and Documents NotificationsStatements and Press releases Resources 10-year anniversary of the Protocol ABS Clearing-HouseAwareness-raisingBonn GuidelinesE-Learning CoursesFactsheets and BriefsProtocol and decision bookletsVideosOther resources Access and Benefit-sharing // Documentation from the negotiations Thursday // 2.3.2011 Relevant documentation from the negotiations of the Nagoya Protocol At its seventh meeting, in February 2004, the Conference of the Parties decided to mandate the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing with the collaboration of the Ad Hoc Open ended Inter-sessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and related provisions, to elaborate and negotiate an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing. Since then, the work of the Working Group on ABS has been supported by various valuable material reflected in the comprehensive lists of official documentation prepared for the respective meetings. In order to make this information more easily accessible, the documents have been categorized according to their type (e.g. reports, studies, submissions) and according to the different substantive issues that they address (e.g. analysis of gaps, use of terms, internationally recognized certificate of origin/source/legal provenance). The following selection contains relevant COP decisions, as well as documents that have been prepared for the meetings of the Working Group on ABS, as the negotiating body of the IR, and for the fifth and sixth meetings of the Working Group on Article 8j and related provisions. An additional section containing earlier documents that are still of relevance and may be useful for the negotiation process is also included below. Relevant COP- Decisions Reports of CBD meetings Documents prepared by the Co-Chairs of the WGABS Documents prepared or commissioned by the Executive Secretary Submissions from Parties, other Governments, Stakeholders and Indigenous and Local Communities Studies and research reports Reports of other relevant meetings Documents of the Ad-hoc Open-ended Inter-sessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and related provisions related to the IR Documents from earlier Working Group and Expert Meetings
Access and Benefit-sharing // Documentation from the negotiations Thursday // 2.3.2011 Relevant documentation from the negotiations of the Nagoya Protocol At its seventh meeting, in February 2004, the Conference of the Parties decided to mandate the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing with the collaboration of the Ad Hoc Open ended Inter-sessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and related provisions, to elaborate and negotiate an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing. Since then, the work of the Working Group on ABS has been supported by various valuable material reflected in the comprehensive lists of official documentation prepared for the respective meetings. In order to make this information more easily accessible, the documents have been categorized according to their type (e.g. reports, studies, submissions) and according to the different substantive issues that they address (e.g. analysis of gaps, use of terms, internationally recognized certificate of origin/source/legal provenance). The following selection contains relevant COP decisions, as well as documents that have been prepared for the meetings of the Working Group on ABS, as the negotiating body of the IR, and for the fifth and sixth meetings of the Working Group on Article 8j and related provisions. An additional section containing earlier documents that are still of relevance and may be useful for the negotiation process is also included below. Relevant COP- Decisions Reports of CBD meetings Documents prepared by the Co-Chairs of the WGABS Documents prepared or commissioned by the Executive Secretary Submissions from Parties, other Governments, Stakeholders and Indigenous and Local Communities Studies and research reports Reports of other relevant meetings Documents of the Ad-hoc Open-ended Inter-sessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and related provisions related to the IR Documents from earlier Working Group and Expert Meetings
