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ABS Procedure
(PRO)
last updated: 29 Aug 2019
Commercial and non commercial use
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National / Federal
Person:Mr. Abraham Zivayi MatizaDeputy Director for Environment, Environment and Natural Resources Management Department11th Florr Kaguvi Building, Coner 4th Street and Central AvenueHarare, Harare
00000, ZimbabwePhone: +263772362820,Fax: +263712233046,Email: matiza.abraham@gmail.com,Website:
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1. The user applies for the use of genetic resources and/or traditional knowledge
2. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NFP) in the Ministry of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry (METHI) determines whether the request is an ABS case and if so, refers the user to the relevant local authority and communities.
3. The user seeks Prior Informed Consent (PIC) from local authority and communities and at the same time negotiate Mutually Agreed Terms (MAT)/Benefit Sharing Agreement (BSA).
4. The draft MAT and PIC are submitted to the Environmental Management Agency (EMA).
5. EMA, guided by the ABS Committee- may make comments and send the user back to district authorities and communities for incorporation.
6. Once the MAT/BSA are finalized and agreed, EMA makes a request to the National Focal Point (NFP), the METHI, to issue the internationally recognized certificate of compliance (IRCC)
Access or use is granted to the user and the NFP uploads the certificate onto the international ABS clearing house
Yes
1. Project proposal
2. Identification documents
2. Identification documents
No
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- Access to genetic resources (Article 15 of the CBD)
- Nagoya Protocol
- Scope
- Competent national authority/ies
- Access
- Access to genetic resources
- For commercial use
- For non-commercial use
- Access to traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources, including prior informed consent or approval or involvement
- For commercial use
- For non-commercial use
- Benefit-Sharing
- Mutually agreed terms
- Monetary benefits
- Non-monetary benefits
- Compliance
- Compliance with domestic legislation or regulatory requirements of the other Party (Article 15 and 16)
- On access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing
- On access to traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources and benefit-sharing
- Non-compliance with domestic legislation or regulatory requirements
- Issues related to monitoring the utilization of genetic resources (Article 17)
- Permits or their equivalent constituting an internationally recognized certificate of compliance
- Compliance with mutually agreed terms (Article 18)
- Traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources
- Access and Benefit-sharing Clearing-House
- Awareness-raising
- Transboundary cooperation
- Technology transfer, collaboration and cooperation
- Compliance with the Protocol
- ABS agreements
- Commercial purpose
- Non-commercial purposes
- All types of genetic resources
- All areas of access of the genetic resource
- Agricultural areas
- Forest
- Inland waters
- Dry and sub-humid areas
- Marine and coastal areas
- Mountains
- Protected areas
- Islands
- Users of genetic resources
- Intellectual property rights
- Relevant international agreements, instruments and organizations
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