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    • About
    • Network
    • Library
    • Podcasts
    • News
    • Calendar
  • ABS
    • Understanding the ABS world – infographic
    • Build your ABS Strategy – checklist
    • Benefit-sharing
    • ABS – dealing with practical challenges
    • Tools & Resources for ABS
    • ABS Stories
  • Compliance
    • Video: ABS compliance supports your science
    • Do I have compliance obligations?
    • What are my obligations?
    • Tools & Resources for Compliance
    • User checks
    • Implications of non-compliance
  • Your institution
    • Institutional measures for compliance – infographic
    • Guidelines for institutions
    • Who can I contact at my institution?
    • Registered collections
    • Compliance Stories
  • FAQs and more
    • FAQ
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    • Current issues
  • Contact
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Slide The German Nagoya Protocol HuB, or GNP HuB for short, helps people in the academic research sector in Germany with understanding their obligations arising from the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol. Why ‘HuB’? HuB stands for ‘Hilfe und Beratung’ - help and guidance in English.

Is this relevant for me?

The Nagoya Protocol has been in force since October 2014. It provides a comprehensive international framework on Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS) and compliance.

Slide The Nagoya what? The Nagoya Protocol. It’s international law that deals with research on biological material.
Slide Are you doing research on biological material like plants, viruses, bacteria, fungi etc.? Does the material originally come from outside Germany?
Slide Yeah, so what? The Nagoya Protocol could be relevant for you! You need to know about access and benefit-sharing and your compliance obligations in Germany!

Our “ABS world” infographic provides a quick and easy overview of whether your research leads to ABS or compliance obligations.

Go to the ABS world infographic

Watch our video and understand why ABS compliance is essential for your research.

Information about access and benefit-sharing (ABS)

Many countries around the world regulate access to non-human biological material (“genetic resources”) for research purposes, requiring benefits arising from this use to be shared. This is referred to as “access and benefit-sharing”, or ABS for short.

As an academic researcher, you may need an ABS permit and to sign a benefit-sharing agreement.

Information about access, benefit-sharing and your obligations

Helpful tips about ABS and dealing with challenges

Tools and resources that support ABS

Answers to FAQs and mythbusters about ABS

Going through the ABS process for the first time? Use our “Build your ABS Strategy” checklist to guide you!

Go to checklist

Through our ABS Stories, you can learn how German researchers successfully navigated ABS in different countries around the world.

Information on compliance for research in Germany

Regulation (EU) No 511/2014 requires researchers, including basic and non-commercial researchers, to ensure that their research is Nagoya Protocol compliant.

Understand whether you have compliance obligations and what they are

Information about user checks and the implications of non-compliance

Tools and resources and institutional guidelines that support compliance

Answers to FAQs and mythbusters about compliance

Our infographic on institutional measures provides a quick and easy overview of who could be involved in compliance at the institutional level

Go to the infographic

Through our Compliance Stories you can learn about how German institutions are dealing with their obligations Regulation (EU) No 511/2014.

Get in touch with us!

Can’t find what you are looking for on our website and you have a question?

Contact us

Outreach and awareness-raising

We can do online information sessions for your institution or offer short presentations for scientific conferences in either English and German. If you’re interested, contact us! You can also check out our upcoming events in our calendar.

Our Network

Slide It’s a challenge but everyone is in the same boat.

The GNP HuB Network is an informal network that brings together people from all over Germany, providing a platform for information exchange of experiences and expertise, awareness-raising and networking.

Join us!

Podcast

In our podcast series “Nagoya Bites”, we walk researchers through various topics and hopefully demystify the Nagoya Protocol and ABS along the way.
Available on Anchor, Spotify und YouTube.
Go to episodes

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Join our mailing list and follow us on Twitter, Youtube and LinkedIn.

We also provide regular updates in our news posts.

About the German Nagoya Protocol HuB

Behind the scenes – The Leibniz Institute-German Collection for Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (DSMZ) is partnering with the Consortium of German Natural Science Collections (DNFS), the German Life Sciences Association (VBIO) and the Leibniz Research Network Biodiversity (LFN BioDiv) on the German Nagoya Protocol HuB.

You can find more information about the project and our activities under about us and in the library.

 

The German Nagoya Protocol HuB is financed by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz) with funds from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, nukleare Sicherheit und Verbraucherschutz)

 

 

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