Consultation Forum on Access and benefit sharing (ABS) (ABS Consultation Forum)

Details

Abbreviation: ABS Consultation Forum

Policy Area: Environment

Lead DG: DG Environment

Type: Informal

Scope: Limited

Mission: Platform for exchange of information related to the implementation of the EU ABS Regulation and its Implementing Regulation between the interested parties, the representatives of the Member States and the Commission.

Task: other (To provide advice and expertise to the Commission (Directorate-General for Environment) in relation to the implementation of the EU ABS Regulation and its Implementing Regulation, and to facilitate coordination and cooperation with Member States and stakeholders in that regard.)

Contact: -

Publication in RegExp: 09/02/2016

Creating Act: -

Last updated: 18/04/2023

Additional Information

Activity report: First meeting of the ABS Consultation Forum on 21/01/16

Summary record ABS Consultation Forum 21-01-16 rev1.pdf (approx. 103 kb)

Agenda Consultation Forum 21 Jan 2016.pdf (approx. 201 kb)

Activity report: Second meeting of the ABS Consultation Forum on 06/03/17

Summary Record ABS Consultation Forum 06-03-17 fin.pdf (approx. 34 kb)

Participants for Register - ABS Consultation Forum 06-03-17.pdf (approx. 96 kb)

Agenda Consultation Forum 6 March 2017.pdf (approx. 112 kb)

Selection procedure: Call for applications to become a member of the ABS Consultation Forum

call for applications.pdf (approx. 107 kb)

Rules of procedure: The Rules of procedure of the ABS Consultation Forum were adopted in the first meeting of the group. Regarding membership, the total number of eligible applications significantly exceeded the number of available slots for membership and applications from some sectors were particularly numerous. In order to achieve the balanced representation required by the ABS Regulation, some organisations representing closely related interests were merged into groups. The first organisation in the attached document (Members of the Consultation Forum) has been given "Member" status while the other organisations of the groups have been given "Alternate member" status. The organisations merged in groups agree on who will represent the group in each meeting.

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/biodiversity/international/abs/legislation_en.htm

Members of Consultation Forum.pdf (approx. 97 kb)

ABS Forum RoP final.pdf (approx. 29 kb)

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  Dit type werkgroepen van de Europese Unie adviseert de Europese Commissie bij het opstellen van nieuwe wetgeving en nieuw beleid. Daarnaast houden ze zich bezig met controle, coördinatie en samenwerking met de lidstaten. Expertgroepen kunnen tijdelijk of permanent zijn ingesteld. De deskundigen worden niet betaald, maar krijgen een onkostenvergoeding. Expertgroepen zijn samengesteld uit deskundigen van nationale overheden, vertegenwoordigers van belangenorganisaties en/of experts uit het bedrijfsleven.
   
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