In the intervening decade, however, relatively few states have implemented national frameworks for access and benefit sharing. To accelerate implementation of CBD access and benefit sharing provisions, the parties to the CBD adopted the “Bonn Guidelines on Access to Genetic Resources and Fair and Equitable Sharing of the Benefits Arising out of their Utilization" in 2002. At its meeting in Bonn, in May 2008, the Ninth Conference of the Parties (COP 9) agreed on a basis for negotiating an international regime for access and benefit-sharing which has to be completed by COP 10 in Japan in mid-2010. ICC is coordinating the business input in the ABS negotiations through the ICC Task Force on the CBD.
Discussions on the protection of traditional knowledge and access and benefit sharing in relation to genetic resources are also taking place in other international fora, such as the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the World Trade Organization in the context of TRIPS.