Notifications
Report from the DivSeek Initiative
The implications for the objectives of the Treaty of the technologies underlying the DivSeek initiative
20 March 2017
The implications for the objectives of the Treaty of the technologies underlying the DivSeek initiative
20 March 2017
The purpose of this notification is to share with all Contracting Parties and interested stakeholders, the report submitted by the DivSeek Initiative in response to the invitation by the Governing Body in 2015.
At its Sixth Session, by Resolution 3/2015 on the “Vision...
Invitation to Provide Comments on the Guidelines for the Assignation of Digital Object Identifiers
15 March 2017
15 March 2017
The Secretariat of the International Treaty is pleased to invite Contracting Parties and Stakeholders to provide comments for the update of the Guidelines for the optimal use of Digital Object Identifiers as permanent unique identifiers for germplasm samples - v.2...
I have the honour to make an announcement regarding the participation of Observers in the sixth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-Sharing (Working Group).
The Terms of...
Call for Funding of the Special Fund for the Participation of Developing Countries in the Governing Body and its intersessional meetings
25 October 2016
25 October 2016
I have the honour to draw your attention to the Report of the Sixth Session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty (Rome, 5-9 October 2015) and the decisions contained therein. In particular, reference is made to Resolution 11/2015...
Reporting on PGRFA transfers with the Standard Material Transfer Agreement and on material available in the Multilateral System
24 October 2016
24 October 2016
The Secretariat of the International Treaty is pleased to remind users of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing that providers of material can continue to report online through Easy-SMTA on all transfers of plant genetic resources for food and...