The implementation of the Nagoya Protocol poses some challenges for the academic research sector in Germany.

Nevertheless, there has been a lot of learning by doing. By sharing experiences and learning from one another , the research community can work towards overcoming some of the challenges.

Here we share experience from German institutions that have been dealing with Nagoya Protocol compliance.

Every compliance story is a little different so the types of information provided vary but we try to tell you things like:

• what institutional policies have been adopted

• how responsibilities are divided among different parts of the institution and who is involved

• how awareness-raising has been done

• how document and sample management is organized

• the resources invested to deal with compliance

• challenges faced

We hope this helps! Do you also have a compliance story to share? Let us know.

Lessons learned

There are some general lessons learned which may be helpful for researchers and institutions want to deal with their compliance obligations.