Combined Report of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Meetings of the CGIAR Genetic Resources Policy Committee

Combined summary records of the 15th and 16th meetings of the GRPC, held February 16-18, and September 1-3, 2004, Carlos Correa presiding. The agenda included: the issue of the possible unintended presence of transgenes in IARC’s ex situ collection, the implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Foodand Agriculture, the promotion of farmers’ rights and non-monetary benefit sharing through technology transfers under the International Treaty, the state of intellectual property-related practices of the Future Harvest Centres and the establishment of a world-wide germplasm safety duplication site at Svalbard, Norway.This report was discussed at the Stakeholders Meeting at AGM 2004 in Mexico City.