This action has two components: firstly, special indemnities paid to experts for their work on scientific opinions, and secondly, scientific and technical assistance for the functioning of the Scientific Committees and risk communication.

At the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on IP, genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore (IGC), the European Community submitted a proposal in 2004 for establishing a mandatory requirement for a patent applicant to disclose the source/origin of any genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge used in its patent applications[68].

I don't understand why the government wouldn't have adopted what the special committee was saying in terms of an allowance for personal cultivation.

One of the issues that the minister and the government are most proud of is something that they were not on board with in the first place (1225) The second thing they wanted was for aboriginal and traditional knowledge contributions to have a higher role in the act to determine whether a species was at risk or not.

Between January 2002 and October 2003, the Ad Hoc Committee for the negotiation of a Convention against Corruption held seven sessions and thus fulfilled the mandate given by the General Assembly to prepare a draft Convention by the end of 2003.

49. Takes the view, therefore, that the problems connected with these special investigative methods should not be passed over in silence, but instead should be particularly thoroughly debated - above all at parliamentary level; in so doing, any attempt using these methods to give the criminal investigation agencies instruments equal to those used by organized crime should always go hand in hand with a careful weighing of the level of violation of basic civil rights and possible effects on innocent parties against the chances of success and the advantages vis-à-vis traditional ...[+++] investigative methods;