International regime on access and benefit sharing: Where are we now?

  • 30/11/2010

  • Asian Biotechnology and Development Review

Limitations of the national law in remedying biopiracy led to the negotiations on an international regime in Access and Benefi Sharing. The deliberations were stuck for a long time due to the extreme divergent views of the developed countries on the one hand and of the biodiversity rich developing countries on the other. A compromise was reached recently during the tenth COP at Nagoya, Japan, after more than six years of negotiations.