Information på svenska om Nagoya och ABS
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Legal obligation and "due diligence"
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What is a genetic resource?
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REIS can help you!
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Other important documents and tools
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Contact
Legal obligation and "due diligence"
Researchers conducting their research in Sweden have a legal obligation to comply with the Nagoya Protocol, the EU ABS regulation establishing compliance procedures and the Swedish supplementary regulation. Researchers (users) have to demonstrate “due diligence”, by showing that access to genetic resources and/or traditional knowledge associated with those resources occurred in accordance with applicable access and benefit sharing laws implemented by the provider country.
What is a genetic resource?
Genetic resources are any genetic material of plant, animal, microbial or other origin containing functional units of heredity which is of actual or potential value, or derivatives (when access is combined with access to the genetic resource). The protocol does not apply to human genetic resources, genetic resources covered by specialized treaties (e.g. ITPGRFA, PIP) and those collected in international waters.
REIS can help you!
If you consider that your research may fall within the scope of the Nagoya Protocol and the ABS-regulation or if you need to submit a declaration of due diligence, please contact Viviana Stechina (viviana.stechina@su.se) from the Office for Research, Engagement and Innovation Services (REIS). Stockholm University is registered as a user at DECLARE (the EU-declaration tool) and SU researchers have to submit their declarations by using this registration. REIS has the status of administrator at SU.
For more information, please visit the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency that is the national competent authority in Sweden.
Other important documents and tools
Access and Benefit-Sharing Clearing-House (ABSCH); A platform for the exchange of information on access and benefit-sharing between the countries that has signed the Nagoya Protocol. By making relevant information regarding ABS available, the ABS Clearing-House helps users to access genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, and providers to fairly and equitably share in the benefits arising from their utilization.
The EU-ABS Guidance document on the scope of application and core obligations of the EU-ABS Regulation (No 511/2014).
Contact
Viviana Stechina e-post: viviana.stechina@su.se