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About Community Protocols and Procedures and Customary Law

  12 Nov 2018

Article 12, paragraph 1, of the Nagoya Protocol provides that Parties, in implementing their obligations under the Protocol, shall in accordance with domestic law take into consideration indigenous and local communities’ customary laws, community protocols and procedures, as applicable, with respect to traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources. Furthermore, Parties are to endeavour to support, as appropriate, the development by indigenous and local communities of community protocols in relation to access to traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources and benefits arising out of the utilization of such knowledge (Article 12, paragraph 3, (a)).
 

Providing information on how to access traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources helps other actors to better understand and respect community procedures and values.
 

This common format is to be used for registering community protocols and procedures and customary laws. A Party may also decideto include this information as a legislative, administrative or policy measure, as part of a country’s national ABS framework to also be displayed as part of the country profile. If this is the case, only publishing authorities duly designated by the country can publish community protocols and procedures and customary laws as a national record.

Instructions

Please fill in the submission form and complete all fields following the instructions given. Certain fields are mandatory and indicated with an asterisk(*). The review of the form will highlight the mandatory fields that need to be filled before it is possible to publish the record. The record can be saved as a draft. Frequently saving of records is recommended, especially in case of intermittent internet connections.
 

It is possible to introduce information one of the six official UN languages. Select languages using the button located at the top left of the page and for each submission field, a text boxes will appear in the languages selected.

 

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