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Biodiversity and Bioprospecting

BIO Bioprospecting Guidelines
June 30, 2005
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Letters, Testimony & Comments

Biotech IP Issues Around the World: BIO's 2012 Special 301 Report
February 14 2012
BIO has identified the following countries of interest and recommends the following for our 2011 Special 301 submission. Priority...
Biological Diversity: Draft Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity
October 14 2010
October 14, 2010 To: Members of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing of the Convention on Biological...
Comments, 8th Meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing
July 31 2009
  VIEWS AND PROPOSALS OF THE BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION (BIO) AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF...
Comments, Main Components in Annex I of Decision IX/12 of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
December 15 2008
Comments, 12th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC)
July 3 2008
The List of Options on Genetic Resources for Consideration by the Intergovernmental Committee on Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge...
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Press Releases

BIO Applauds Fifth Anniversary of the Biosafety Protocol
September 11 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Thursday, September 11, 2008) - Today marks the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of...
BIO and IICA Enter into Memorandum of Understanding to Promote Agricultural Biotechnology in the Americas
January 24 2007
WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 24, 2007) – The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and the Inter-American...