| CBD Signatory Country |
Legislation Summary |
Web Site |
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| Pakistan |
No access legislation.Pakistan plans to Develop access legislation
as a matter of priority to comply with Article 15 (genetic resources), Article
16 (technology) and Article 19 (handling of biotechnology and distribution of its benefits).
(Updated August 1999) |
http://www.biodiv.org/ doc/world/pk/ pk-nbsap-01-en.doc |
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| Palau |
No information. |
http://www.biodiv.org/ world/map.asp? ctr=pw |
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| Panama |
No information. |
http://www.biodiv.org/ doc/world/pa/ pa-nr-abs-es.pdf
http://www.biodiv.org/doc/world/pa/pa-nbsap-01-p1-es.pdf |
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| Papua New Guinea |
No information. |
http://www.biodiv.org/ world/map.asp? ctr=pg |
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| Paraguay |
No information. |
http://www.biodiv.org/ world/map.asp? ctr=py |
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| Peru |
Article 15 - Probable legislation.
Article 16 - No legislation.
Article 19 - No legislation.
(Updated May 2001) |
http://www.biodiv.org/ doc/world/pe/pe-nr-02-es.pdf
(Spanish) |
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| Philippines |
Article 15 - EO 247 entitled Prescribing Guidelines and Establishing a Regulatory
Framework for the Prospecting of Biological and Genetic Resources, Their
By-products and Derivatives, for Scientific and Commercial Purposes and For
Other Purposes was formulated on the basis of the CBD and the 1987 Philippine
Constitution.The State has the ultimate responsibility of preserving and protecting the environment. The State
owns, among others, wildlife, flora and fauna, and has full control and
supervision over the disposition, development and utilization thereof.
At the national level, both EO the recently enacted Republic Act (RA) No.
837 1 or the Indigenous People’s Rights Act of 1997 clearly extend the
authority to give PIC beyond the State, by requiring that consent be secured
from the community and not just the State.
The Philippines is known to be the first country to formulate and
implement specific framework legislation on access to genetic resources. Other
countries have benefited from the Philippine’s experience in implementing
Article 15 and have learned from its successes and failures.
Article 16 - The Philippine access regulation (EO 247) treats both foreign and local
collectors equally in terms of requirements and opportunities for access,
except for requirements that encourage technology transfer from the foreign
collector to local collaborators.
Article 19 - After the creation of the National Committee on Biosafety pursuant to
Executive Order No. 430, the first edition of the Philippine Biosafety
Guidelines was released by the NCBP in 1991.The guidelines cover all work involving genetic engineering and the
importation, introduction, field release and breeding of organisms that are
potentially harmful to people or the environment even though these are not
genetically modified. The Philippines was one of the first countries in Asia to
formulate biosafety guidelines.
(Updated May 1998) |
http://www.biodiv.org/ doc/world/ph/ ph-nr-01-en.pdf |
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| Poland |
Article 15 - Access is regulated to only a limited extent by the Nature
Conservation Act. This Act regulates the practice of obtaining biologic material from protected species.
Article 16 - The Ministry of the Economy is interested in selected aspects of the
international trade in this sphere, including that in biotechnologies.Principles for business are provided for in
the Act on Principles for the Detailed Control of Foreign Trade in Goods and
Technologies in Connection with International Agreements and Obligations<(which controls the trade in hazardous
technologies and goods), and the Act on Foreign Trade in Goods and Technologies
of Strategic Importance for the Security of the State(which regulates the principles in this sphere, as well as
ensuring the upholding of international peace and security, the principles for
the monitoring and registration of the aforementioned trade, and responsibility
for non-compliance with the law on trade in these goods, technologies and services).
Article 19 - Put before Parliament at the end of 2000, the draft Genetically Modified
Organisms Act sets out guidelines for
the contained use of GMOs, their introduction into the environment and their
inclusion for trade, as well as for the protection of those who are in contact
with these kinds of organism.
(Updated May 2001) |
http://www.biodiv.org/ doc/world/pl/ pl-nr-abs-en.pdf
http://www.biodiv.org/ doc/world/pl/ pl-nr-02-en.pdf |
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| portugal |
No access legislation.
(Updated 1998) |
http://www.biodiv.org/ doc/world/pt/ pt-nr-01-en.pdf |
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