Summary
Highlights for Monday, 17 June 2019
On Monday, the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the Multilateral System (MLS) of access and benefit-sharing (ABS) of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) addressed organizational matters, heard reports, and exchanged views on a package of measures to attain the enhanced MLS, proposed by Co-Chairs Javad Mozafari (Iran) and Hans Hoogeveen (the Netherlands). In the afternoon, participants initiated negotiations on the draft revised Standard Material Transfer Agreement (SMTA).In the morning, the Working Group discussed:
In the afternoon, the Working Group addressed a proposal by the Co-Chairs, containing a package of measures to simultaneously adopt the revised SMTA and the amendment of Annex 1 of the Treaty (list of crops in the MLS) through a resolution providing for:
A revised Co-Chairs' proposal will be presented on Tuesday.The Working Group then initiated negotiations on the Co-Chairs' proposed draft revised SMTA (IT/OWG-EFMLS-9/19/4 Add.1), starting from Annex 3 on terms and conditions of the subscription system.
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