DSMZ: the European Union’s first Registered Collection under the Nagoya Protocol
Andrey Yurkov A , Hilke Marie Püschner A and Amber Hartman Scholz A BA Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
B Email: amber.h.scholz@dsmz.de
Microbiology Australia 40(3) 108-113 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA19030
Published: 17 September 2019
Abstract
The Convention on Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol have created new challenges for international microbiological research. With the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol in 2014, the European Union created a new voluntary legal mechanism, the Register of Collections, to help users of collections, including culture collections, have an easier path to Nagoya Protocol compliance by using a so-called ‘registered collection'. The Leibniz Institute DSMZ is the first, and so far only, collection to successfully be entered into the Register. The challenges and lessons learned during this process can be informative for culture collections and users of microbial resources beyond the EU and indeed around the world.
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