Color Key: Attached Documents External Websites
General Information:
- Final Workshop Agenda
- Participant List
- ABS Bibliography
- Principles on Access of Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing for Participating Institutions
- Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) ABS Website
- World Trade Organization website on the TRIPS Agreement and CBD
- S. Martinez Compilation: Existing Guidelines, Standards, Codes of Conduct for Non-Commercial Intent
Monday, 17 November 2008: Museum Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, Bonn, Germany
8:30 am: Registration and Coffee
9:00 am: Session 1. Opening (Chair: W. Wägele)
- Welcome by Museum Koenig, local co-host (W. Wägele)
- Welcome by DFG, local co-host (M.Kleiner)
- DFG ABS Guidelines
- DFG ABS Position Paper
- Welcome by German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (N. Breier, M. Auer)
- Introduction of workshop co-sponsors
- Statement of workshop’s goals (D. Schindel, R. Shönwitz)
- Workshop Prospectus and Invitation Letter
9:45 am: Session 2: Workshop background (Chair: N. Davies)
- CBD Secretariat Website for ABS
- CBD ABS in Practice Brochure
- Bonn Guidelines for Access and Benefit Sharing
- COP-9 Decisions - Final
- AHTEG Call for Nominations
- Notification of AHTEG members
- Meeting Documents for Namibia AHTEG meeting on Concepts, Terms, Working Definitions and Sectoral Approaches
- Definitions and delimitations:
- "Basic Research vs. Commercial Research" (J-D. Wahiche)
- Wahiche-LeDuc Contibution to sectorial approach
- "Scientific research based on genetic resources" versus research on biological resources (K. Bavikatte)
10:30 am: Coffee/tea break
Sessions 3 and 4 will be panel discussions about the non-commercial research sector and its subsectors, sometimes referred to as "communities of research practice". Session 3 communities generally lack commercial intent and can be regarded as "academic" research. Session 4 communities may involve some commercial intent. Discussions will explore:
- What kinds of non-commercial research are there and what are their goals?
- Who are the actors in these communities? (universities, corporations, etc)
- What activities do they do and what access do they need?
- What work-products and benefits do they produce?
11:00 am: Session 3, Panel discussion: Communities of practice in biodiversity research (Chair: Sylvia Martinez)
- CBOL ABS Brochure
- Taxonomists and the CBD
- CBD for Botanists
- Non-commercial benefits - Kew
- Global Strategy Plant Conservation - Kew Brochure
- Growing Expertise for Plant Conservation - Kew Brochure
12:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm: Session 4, Panel discussion: Communities of practice in biodiversity research, continued (Chair: M. D'Alessandro)
- 2008 Science article about GenBank
- Welcome Data Sharing Fort Lauderdale Report
- iBOL Fact Sheet
- iBOL Research Overview
- Global Ocean Sampling Program
- CAMERA Community Resource Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research Analysis
- PLoS Special Issue on Global Ocean Sampling Program
- NIH International Cooperative Biodiversity Group website
- NIH Natural Products MTA
- NIH Natural Products MOU
- NIH Letter of Collection Agreement
- ICIPE COP-9 Statment
- Haas ICIPE Seminar
- International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources
- Standard Material Transfer Agreement
- Hewitt - ISBER
- Hewitt - Biobanking
2:45 pm: Session 5, Panel discussion: What are the risks perceived by provider countries associated with non-commercial biodiversity research? (Chair: J. Fernández)
4:00 pm: Session 6, Instructions to three assigned break-out discussion groups: E. Alonso
The following questions reflect issues that the CBD has raised for consideration by the ABS Working Group. Each group will independently discuss the same four questions:
- What are the defining characteristics of the non-commercial biodiversity research sector?
- What are the different ways that the non-commercial research sector and its subsectors understand and treat biological resources, genetic resources, derivatives, and products?
- What are various forms of utilization of genetic resources in the sub-sectors within the non-commercial biodiversity research sector?
- Should there be different approaches to access and benefit sharing for communities with and without commercial intent?
- Report on Session 6
4:15 pm: Coffee/tea break
4:45 pm: Break-out discussion groups:
- Group 1: Chair: S. Bala Ravi; Rapporteur: A. Lago
- Group 2: Chair: R. Geeta; Rapporteur: E. Alonso
- Group 3: Chair: P. Ong; Rapporteur: K. Bavikatte
6:30 pm: Wine reception at Museum Koenig
8:00 pm: Dinner at Ristorante Da Dante
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Morning Session
8:30 am: Session 7: Merged presentation of three break-out discussion groups (Chair: S. Miller)
9:15 am: Session 8: Panel Discussion: Presentations of case studies of ABS agreements for non-commercial biodiversity research (Chair: R. Geeta)
- S. Brels, French Polynesia Moorea/Biocode Project
- ABS aspects of the Biocode Project.ppt
- B. Phillips, Australian legislation and procedures
- Griffith University/Astra Zeneca partnership
- E. Beck, Ecological research in Ecuador
- DFG-Research Unit 816: Biodiversity and Sustainable Management of a Megadiverse Mountain Ecosystem in South Ecuador
- K. Bavikatte, Prunus in Uganda
10:30 am: Coffee/tea break
11:00 am: Session 9: Panel discussion: Models of ABS implementation (Chair: K. Holm-Müller)
- What standard ABS components and documents (PICs, MATs, MTAs) already exist?
- How well have these standard documents worked?
- What Codes of Conduct have been developed and implemented for non-commercial biodiversity research?
- Is a standard code needed, and if so, what should it cover?
- One Botanic Garden's Approach to ABS: International Plant Exchange Network (IPEN)
- International Plant Exchange Network (IPEN) website
- IPEN 2005 Workshop Report
- 1999 MOSAICC Compared to 2001 CBD Bonn Guidelines
- Australia Model Agreements
- Australia biodiscovery report 2005
- Australia Voumard report
- Australia Nationally Consistent Approach
- Australia Genetic Resource Management
- Guidelines for Basic Researchers, Experiences Made by DFG
- Implications for Research in Switzerland after the Adoption of the Bonn Guidelines (presentation)
- ABS - Good Practice for Academic Research with Genetic Resources
- ABS Management Tool by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs
- Existing Guidelines, Standards, Codes of Conduct for Non-Commercial Intent
- "Models of ABS Implementation"
- Kew Policy on ABS
- Kew HPE MSA Model
- Kew Standard Donation of Material Model Letter
- Kew Use of Material Model Letter
- Model MoU Agreement
12:30: Lunch
1:30 pm: Session 10: Panel discussion: Implementation and compliance issues (Chair: S. Tillier)
- What specific access procedures are needed and possible for non-commercial research?
- What safeguards and assurances are needed against the unauthorized commercial use of material that was initially obtained for non-commercial purposes (through simplified procedures)?
- What new technologies are available for tracking and monitoring the movement of genetic resources?
- Implementation and Compliance Issues
- Implementation and Compliance Issues
3:00 pm: Coffee/tea break
3:30 pm: Session 11, Plenary discussion: Non-commercial biodiversity research projects that develop commercial intent (Chair: P. du Plessis)
- How often does it happen?
- Are non-commercial and commercial research sufficiently different to make a clear distinction?
- How can the change of intent be recognized?
- How can ABS regulations anticipate and handle these changes?
- Plenary Discussion Notes
5:00 pm: Session 12: Instructions to three assigned break-out discussion groups: E. Alonso
The following questions reflect issues that the CBD has raised for consideration by the ABS Working Group. Discussion groups are asked to address thefollowing from the perspective of the non-commercial biodiversity research sector.
- Identify and describe the characteristics of access and benefit-sharing arrangements for non-commercial research.
- What kind of voluntary measures are available to enhance compliance of users of foreign genetic resources?
- Non-commercial biodiversity research produces information resources (e.g., publications and databases) and infrastructure (e.g., museum collections and cell lines), that can then be used for subsequent non-commercial and commercial research. With this in mind, what particular compliance measures are needed for research with non-commercial intent? How could these measures address challenges arising from:
(1) changes in intent and/or users, and
(2) non-compliance with relevant access and benefit-sharing legislation and/or mutually agreed terms?
- Group 1: Chair: S. Bala Ravi; Rapporteur: A. Lago
- Group 2: Chair: R. Geeta; Rapporteur: E. Alonso
- Group 3: Chair: P. Ong; Rapporteur: K. Bavikatte
6:15 pm: Group photograph
6:30 pm: Wine reception and dinner in Museum Koenig
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
8:30 am: Session 13: Merged presentation of three break-out discussions (Chair: J-D. Wahiche)
9:15 am: Session 14: Plenary discussion: Review workshop goals, take stock of progress, plan next steps (Chair: D. Schindel)
10:30 am: Coffee/tea break
11:00 am: Session 15: Break-out drafting groups led by designated coordinators
12:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm: Session 16: Three break-out groups review draft report
2:30 pm: Consultation among break-out group leaders and rapporteurs
3:00 pm: Coffee/tea break
3:30 pm: Session 17: Report of review groups and final discussion of report: (Chair: C. Häuser)
5:00 pm: Workshop ends
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There is a bad link to the CBD Bonn ABS Guidelines. Please try < http://www.cbd.int/doc/publications/cbd-bonn-gdls-en.pdf >
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