Situational Analysis on South African enterprises within the Bioprospecting/ Biotrade... Tender

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Country : South Africa

Summary : Situational Analysis on South African enterprises within the Bioprospecting/ Biotrade Sector, implementing Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS)

Deadline : 28 Oct 2018

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TOT Ref.No.: 27707216

Document Ref. No. : 50712

Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

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Situational Analysis on South African enterprises within the Bioprospecting/ Biotrade Sector, implementing Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS)

South Africa is a Party to the Nagoya Protocol since its entry into force on October 12, 2014. South Africa has a well-developed and progressive policy framework for biodiversity management. The country is one of the few countries to put in place national legislation that gives effect to Articles 15 and 8(j) of the CBD, which recognize the importance of regulated access to genetic resources as well as their associated TK by requiring the users of these resources to obtain PIC and negotiate mutually agreed terms to share the benefits derived from commercial or non-commercial exploitation of such resources in a fair and equitable manner with the provider of such resources and knowledge, including ILCs. The framework legislation to regulate ABS issues is the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, 2004 (Act No. 10 of 2004). This legislation was built on the basis of the White Paper on Environmental Management Policy of 1998, the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No. 108 of 1998), the CBD, and the Bonn Guidelines on ABS.The objectives of the Biodiversity Act are to provide for: a) the management and conservation of biological diversity within the country; b) the use of indigenous biological resources in a sustainable manner; c) the fair and equitable sharing among stakeholders of benefits arising from bioprospecting involving indigenous biological resources; and d) to give effect to ratified international agreements relating to biodiversity which are binding on the Republic. ABS aspects of the Biodiversity Act are being implemented through the Bioprospecting, Access, and Benefit-Sharing (BABS) Amendment Regulations. These regulations provide for: a) the notification process for the discovery phase of bioprospecting involving any indigenous genetic and biological resources; b) a permitting systemfor bioprospecting and biotrade activities involving any indigenous genetic and biological resources or export from the Republic of any indigenous gen...

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