Introduction
Articles 19 and 20 of the Protocol require each Party to encourage, as appropriate, the development, update and use of sectoral and cross-sectoral model contractual clauses for mutually agreed terms, as well as voluntary codes of conduct, guidelines and best practices and/or standards in relation to access and benefit-sharing. These tools can serve to promote legal certainty and transparency, and reduce transaction costs in the implementation of ABS requirements, while taking into account the practices of different sectors.
This common format is to be used for registering model contractual clauses for mutually agreed terms, as well as voluntary codes of conduct, guidelines and best practices and/or standards.
If this tool is developed by a Party to support implementation of domestic ABS requirements as part of a country’s national ABS framework, please register that information using the common format for legislative, administrative or policy measures. This will allow the information to be displayed as part of the country profile and to be included in the list of national ABS measures.
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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