Managing Institutional Complexity by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780262297431
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

Interplay in the Regime Complex

TRIPS, UPOV, CBD, and ITPGR can be differentiated according to their objectives and scope. With respect to objectives, the main difference lies in the focus on the protection of suppliers’ rights, on the one hand (CBD and ITPGR), and on the protection of users’ rights on the other (TRIPS and UPOV). With respect to scope, the CBD refers to all kinds of biological resources, whereas the ITPGR refers only to PGRFA. TRIPS expands the scope of patentable subject matter to all fields of technology, including those that make use of genetic resources, whereas UPOV addresses only the protection of new plant varieties. ITPGR and UPOV are much more narrowly focused on the specific problems associated with the conservation of PGRFA and the protection of farmers’ rights and plant breeders’ rights (table 7.1).

This section provides a cross-dyadic comparison of the types of interplay that have emerged among supply-related and use-related agreements (columns in table 7.1), as well as among those agreements that address all kinds of genetic resources and those that focus on genetic plant resources for food and agriculture (rows in table 7.1).

Table 7.1

Scope and objectives in the institutional complex on PGRFA

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