{"id":177697,"date":"2015-03-24T15:23:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T18:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=177697"},"modified":"2015-04-24T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T18:29:35","slug":"sbpc-criticizes-draft-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/sbpc-criticizes-draft-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"SBPC criticizes draft bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-177698 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/010-011_Estrategias-Foto1_229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/010-011_Estrategias-Foto1_229.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/010-011_Estrategias-Foto1_229-120x89.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/010-011_Estrategias-Foto1_229-250x184.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Daniel Bueno<\/span>The Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC) has released a statement proposing changes to the draft bill on biodiversity and genetic resources that was approved by the Chamber of Deputies on February 10, 2015. The bill now heads to the Senate for debate. In the document, the Society criticizes the bill\u2019s curtailment of the benefit-sharing rights of groups who have made access to knowledge on genetic heritage possible. \u201cThe bill recognizes the rights of indigenous populations, traditional communities, and small farmers to join in decision making, but in many cases it exempts businesses and researchers from their obligation to share the benefits by financially compensating the holders of traditional knowledge associated with biodiversity,\u201d explains Helena Nader, SBPC president. According to federal representative Alceu Moreira of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party from the state of Rio Grande do Sul (PMDB-RS), rapporteur for the bill, representative associations like the National Foundation for Indigenous People (FUNAI) and the National Institute on Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) took part in the meetings that led up to the lower house vote. \u201cWe didn\u2019t hold an open meeting because the subject matter was technical,\u201d he says. The SBPC statement also highlights the fact that benefit sharing will only apply to the sale of finished goods, thus excusing businesses and researchers from paying compensation until a marketable product has been developed. Furthermore, the SBPC questions a topic in the bill that grants foreign institutions access to Brazilian biodiversity for research purposes yet does not require them to be associated with a Brazilian institution, as currently prescribed by law. \u201cThat\u2019s of concern,\u201d says Helena Nader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SBPC asks for changes to the draft bill on genetic resources ","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[206,390],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-177697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","tag-biodiversity","tag-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177697"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=177697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}