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Brazilian legislation on genetic heritage harms Biodiversity Convention goals and threatens basic biology research and education

2018; Brazilian Academy of Sciences; Volume: 90; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/0001-3765201820180460

1678-2690

Ruy José Válka Alves, Marcelo Weksler, João Alves de Oliveira, Paulo Andreas Buckup, José P. Pombal, HÉLCIO R.G. SANTANA, Adriano Lúcio Peracchi, Alexander W. A. Kellner, Alexandre Luis Padovan Aleixo, Alfredo Langguth, Alzira Maria Paiva de Almeida, Ana Luisa Albernaz, Camila C. Ribas, Carla Zilberberg, Carlos Eduardo Viveiros Grelle, Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha, Carlos José Einicker Lamas, Célio F. B. Haddad, Cibele Rodrigues Bonvicino, Cynthia P. A. Prado, Daniela Oliveira de Lima, Denise de Cerqueira Rossa‐Feres, Fabrício R. Santos, Fátima Regina Gonçalves Salimena, Fernando A. Perini, Flávio A. Bockmann, Francisco L. Franco, Gisele Mendes Lessa Del Giúdice, Guarino Rinaldi Colli, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Jader Marinho‐Filho, JANE M.C.F. WERNECK, Jorge Alberto dos Santos, Jorge Luiz do Nascimento, Jorge Luiz Nessimian, José Luís Passos Cordeiro, Kleber Del‐Claro, Leandro O. Salles, Lílian Casatti, LUCIA HELENA R. PY-DANIEL, Luís Fábio Silveira, Luı́s Felipe Toledo, Luiz F. De Oliveira, Luiz Roberto Malabarba, MARCELO D. DA SILVA, Márcia Souto Couri, Marcio Roberto Martins, Marcos Tavares, Marcos Sobral, Marcus Vinícius Vieira, Maria de Lourdes Aguiar Oliveira, Mário C. C. de Pinna, Michael John Gilbert Hopkins, Mirco Solé, Naércio A. Menezes, Paulo Gustavo Homem Passos, Paulo Sérgio D’Andrea, PEDRO C.E.A. PINTO, Pedro Lage Viana, Peter Mann de Toledo, Roberto Esser dos Reis, Roberto do Val Vilela, Rogério Pereira Bastos, Rosane G. Collevatti, Rui Cerqueira, Santiago Castroviejo‐Fisher, Ulisses Caramaschi,

Genetically Modified Organisms Research

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 ..