BfN Schriften 524 – Vilm ABS Dialogue 2018 – Informing about Domestic Measures for Access to Genetic Resources: Final Report | BFN https://www.bfn.de/publikationen/bfn-schriften/bfn-schriften-524-vilm-abs-dialogue-2018-informing-about-domestic
After entry into force of the Nagoya Protocol and the corresponding Regulation (EU) No. 511/2014, European users of genetic resources (GR) are required to „exercise due dili-gence“ to ensure that they have acquired GR or associated traditional knowledge (aTK) in accordance with the national access procedures of the respective provider country. In Ger-many, as in other EU member states, “competent national authorities” (CNAs) for Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) are in the course of formation and a first meeting of European CNAs already took place in March 2017 on Vilm-Island.
CNAs, as the German Nagoya CNA-Unit, are repeatedly