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BfN Schriften 286 - An economic analysis of new instruments for Access and Benefit-Sharing under the CBD – Standardisation options for ABS transaction. Final Report

Genetic engineering
Nagoya Protocol
BfN-Schriften
In the beginning of 2007, the Institute for Food and Resource Economics at the University of Bonn started a research project on economic aspects of standardisation-based ABS instruments on behalf of the German Federal Agency of Nature Conservation. Model clauses for ABS contracts on the one hand and a fully standardized Multilateral ABS System (MLS) on the other hand were selected as focus.
Author
Sabine Täuber, Karin Holm-Müller, Therese Jacob and Ute Feit
Editor
Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
Year of publication
2011
Edition
286
Language
English
Pages
270

Description

The project was guided by several, partly interrelated, research question:
(1) the empirical identification and theory-based analysis of problems occurring in the creation of bilateral ABS-agreements.
(2) the generation of a general assessment of the chances and limitations of both instruments supporting ABS.
(3) the development of a concept of similarity for transactions with genetic resources on the contract level, in order to discuss implementation aspects of “model clause instrument”, and
(4) the development of a resource-category system reflecting the heterogeneity of genetic resource with respect to utility components of ABS. Basing thereupon the benefits of a multilateral ABS approach can be compared to the bilateral ABS approach.
 

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