Liability and Redress in Africa

The CBD Secretariat has released a report of the African Regional Workshop on the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. In their conclusions, participants, inter alia: - accepted a suggestion by the African Union (AU) Commission to formulate guidelines and strategies to support African countries in putting legal frameworks on liability and redress into place;
- noted the African Model Law on Biosafety as as one possible source of information for the development of regulatory frameworks;
- agreed to initiate implementation by reviewing existing domestic laws; and
- considered the usefulness of a harmonized approach with regard to determining damage to biodiversity, measuring biodiversity loss, techniques for biodiversity valuation and strategies to control the transboundary movements of living modified organisms (LMOs).