Umsetzung des Nagoya Protokolls in EU- und nationales Recht - Transposition of the Nagoya Protocol into EU- and National Law

The Nagoya Protocol against biopiracy is an important achievement in international biodiversity politics. This book presents an alternative concept of how the protocol could have been better transposed into EU and member states law. In contrast to the concept of ‘due diligence’ in the EU Regulation No. 511/2014, the proposal links checking for legal acquisition of biological material to the existing use of regulations on biological material in the EU and its member states (‘piggybacking’). The merits of this are twofold. (1) The book keeps the idea alive that a different form of transposition, which is less bureaucratic and ensures more compliance, is possible. (2) In judicial terms, the study portrays the complex landscape of user regulations on biological resources. Beyond the simple individual authorisation of usage, multiform regulations exist which correspond to the structure of the modern, international network industry.