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Type: | Artigo de Periódico |
Title: | Brazilian legislation on genetic heritage harms biodiversity convention goals and threatens basic biology research and education |
Authors: | Ruy José Válka Alves Alfredo Ricardo L. Bonino Alzira Maria Paiva de Almeida Ana Luisa Albernaz Camila Cherem Ribas Carla Zilberberg Carlos Eduardo de Viveiros Grelle Carlos Frederico D. da Rocha Carlos José Einicker Lamas Celio Fernando Baptista Haddad Cibele Rodrigues Bonvicino Marcelo Weksler Cynthia Peralta de Almeida Prado Daniela Oliveira de Lima Denise de Cerqueira Rossa-Feres Fabrício Rodrigues dos Santos Fatima Regina Gonçalves Salimena Fernando Araujo Perini Flávio Alicino Bockmann Francisco Luís Franco Gisele M. L. Del Giudice Guarino Rinaldi Colli João Alves de Oliveira Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira Jader Marinho-Filho Jane Margaret Costa de Frontin Werneck Jorge A. D. dos Santos Jorge Luiz do Nascimento Jorge Luiz Nessimian José Luís Passos Cordeiro Kleber Del Claro Leandro de Oliveira Salles Lilian Casatti Paulo Andreas Buckup Lúcia Helena Rapp PyDaniel Luís Fábio Silveira Luís Felipe Toledo Luiz Flamarion Barbosa de Oliveira Luiz Roberto Malabarba Marcelo Duarte da Silva Marcia Souto Couri Marcio Roberto Costa Martins Marcos Domingos Siqueira Tavares Marcos Eduardo G. Sobral Jose Perez Pombal Junior Marcus Vinícius Vieira Maria de Lourdes Aguiar Oliveira Mario Cesar Cardoso de Pinna Michael J. G. Hopkins Mirco Solé Naércio A. Menezes Paulo Gustavo Homem Passos Paulo Sergio D'Andrea Pedro C. E. A. Pinto Pedro Lage Viana Hélcio Reinaldo Gil Santana Peter Mann de Toledo Roberto Esser dos Reis Roberto do Val Vilela Rogerio Pereira Bastos Rosane G. Collevatti Rui Cerqueira Silva Santiago Jose Castroviejo Fisher Ulisses Caramaschi Adriano Lúcio Peracchi Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner Alexandre Luis Padovan Aleixo |
Abstract: | Beginning in November 2018, Brazilian legislation regulating access to genetic heritage and associated traditional knowledge will cause a bureaucratic collapse of Biodiversity research in Brazil. Law number 13.123/2015 and Decree 8772/2016 impose severe barriers to basic and applied research, and to international cooperation by introducing mandatory registry of research access to native organisms in Brazil. This legal framework was meant to improve governmental control over systems of biotechnology research using genetic material and associated chemical compounds, which are central points of the Nagoya Protocol (CBD 2011) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD 1992, 2012). However, the requirements imposed by the mandatory registry of research in the new National System for Governance of Genetic Heritage and Associated Traditional Knowledge (SisGen), the system of Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs), and the need to record access to organismal data prior to publication of scientific results or exportation of specimens for scientific research are technically impracticable and not part of the Nagoya Protocol or CBD. These systems have already begun to compromise biodiversity studies and training of human resources in biological sciences, which depend on international partnerships. Biological collections and laboratories based in Brazil will cease to function due to the high operational costs and legal impediments affecting access to national biodiversity by foreigners. On the global scenario, Brazilian science will certainly lose competitiveness. If we need to know our planet’s species to protect them, we are certainly not doing enough and governmental bureaucracy in Brazil is certainly not helping. The current legal framework has already begun to compromise biodiversity studies, activities of natural history collections, and international cooperation. Minimally, in compliance with Article 8 of the Nagoya Protocol, Brazilian authorities should exempt non-commercial biodiversity research from unnecessary bureaucratic burden through legal mechanisms equivalent to the former CGen Resolution 21/2006. |
Subject: | Legislação - Brasil Biodiversidade Pesquisa educacional Variação (Biologia) |
language: | eng |
metadata.dc.publisher.country: | Brasil |
Publisher: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
Publisher Initials: | UFMG |
metadata.dc.publisher.department: | ICB - DEPARTAMENTO DE ZOOLOGIA |
Rights: | Acesso Aberto |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1590/0001-3765201820180460 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1843/72307 |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
metadata.dc.url.externa: | https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/FBKsbzCL3jrGMCrcNX7vNqx/ |
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências |
Appears in Collections: | Artigo de Periódico |
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