Welcome to EC Access and Benefits Sharing Portal

• take a journey on the interactive map, and discovered who's who in Europe and what countries are doing in relation to ABS;
• participate to discussion forum, by posting your comments or open new topics for discussion;
• download documents, either hosted in the Portal (In-house Downloads) or from related sites (External Downloads);
• submit news, making available to all information about your activities on ABS
• jump to related web site, by clicking on one of the related links provided
• and much more... discover what is avalable!

Please remember that we welcome suggestions and feedback. To do so just go to the Member List and send a private mail to Admin.

Welcome to the European Community portal on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing (ABS).

The aim of this portal is to help the EC achieving the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity and, in particular, its Bonn Guidelines adopted at the 6th Conference of the Parties in The Hague in 2002. You will find through this portal easily accessible and up to date information on EC policy and legislative measures related to ABS as well as links to web pages of international organizations active in this field. Furthermore, you will also find details of contact points in all the Member States of the European Union and links to information on ABS in the Member States. We are also in the process of uploading stakeholders profiles in order for you to understand if and how you have or should have an interest in the ABS issue. We envisage that a number of European stakeholders will register on this portal and post here their policies, codes of conduct, other relevant documents which relate to ABS. This portal is aimed at raising your awareness and to give you the chance to present what you have been doing. Use it now and make it a success!