Access and Benefit Sharing: Priority Issues for the Compliance TEG

As reflected by record levels of attendance at the Ninth Conference of the Parties, the business community remains engaged and focused on substantive discussions in the ABS negotiations, including on the objectives, scope and main components of an ABS IR. The ABS IR should include compliance measures with proven effectiveness in the real world, that do not inhibit activities needed to generate benefits from commercial use of Genetic Resources (GR) with or without Traditional Knowledge (TK). This submission to the Technical Experts Group (TEG) on Compliance therefore seeks to identify effective compliance measures, consistent with the encouragement of sustainable, commercial use of GR and related TK in the ABS IR.