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The National Biodiversity Authorityhas notified the Biodiversity Benefit Sharing Regulations 2025, introducing new rules to regulateequitable benefit sharingfrom the use of India’s biological resources, includingdigital sequence information.
AboutBiodiversity Benefit Sharing Regulations 2025:
These are updated rules under theBiological Diversity Act,aimed at ensuring that users—especially industries—share a part of their economic benefits with local communities and biodiversity conservers.
oThis alignsIndia with globalAccess and Benefit Sharing (ABS)
Key Provisions
Turnover-Based Slabs for Benefit Sharing
Mandatory Reporting
Cultivated Plant Exemption
High-Value Species Clause
Digital Sequence Information (DSI)
IPR and Research Use
Revenue Utilization
Global Context: COP16 & Multilateral Sharing
At COP16 of theConvention on Biological Diversity (CBD)inCali, Colombia(2024), member countries adopted a mechanism for sharingDSI-related benefits multilaterally.
Industries like pharma, cosmetics, agriculture, and biotech were asked to equitably compensate indigenous communities and biodiversity custodians.
AboutNational Biodiversity Authority (NBA):
TheNational Biodiversity Authorityis astatutory bodyconstituted in 2003 to implement the provisions of theBiological Diversity Act, 2002, and ensureequitable benefit sharingfrom the use of India’s biological resources.
Headquarter: Chennai
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