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Submission of views and new information on policy approaches, options or modalities for digital sequence information on genetic resources (OEWG3)

Through notification 2021-063, the Executive Secretary to the Convention on Biological Diversity invited Parties, other Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant stakeholders and organizations to submit views and new or additional approaches, options or modalities on how to address digital sequence information on genetic resources under the Convention and the Nagoya Protocol, based on but not limited to the information and elements contained in document CBD/WG2020/3/4 “Digital sequence information on genetic resources”. 

The deadline for the submissions is 30 September 2021. View submissions  for notification 2021-063

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Submissions of views and information on DSI (COP14)

In decision 14/20, paragraph 9, the COP invited Parties, other Governments, indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant organizations and stakeholders to submit views and information:

• (a) To clarify the concept, including relevant terminology and scope, of digital sequence information on genetic resources and if and how domestic measures on access and benefit-sharing consider digital sequence information on genetic resources;
• (b) On benefit-sharing arrangements from commercial and non-commercial use of digital sequence information on genetic resources.

Pursuant to decision 14/20, paragraph 10, Parties, other Governments and indigenous peoples and local communities are also invited to submit information on their capacity-building needs regarding the access, use, generation and analysis of digital sequence information on genetic resources, in particular for the three objectives of the Convention.

The Secretariat invited the submission of views and information through notification 2019-12. Submissions should be sent through an official letter addressed to the Executive Secretary by e-mail to secretariat@cbd.int. The deadline for the submission of views and relevant information was 1 June 2019.