To analyse the impact of the current international and domestic legislative
and regulatory environment affecting the GBRWHA, and to explore potential
management benefits from:
A 1) ensuring that the Intellectual Property from endemic biodiversity,
and any commercialisation of biogentic research enhances the value
and protection accorded the GBRWHA.
A 2) ensuring that the Intellectual Property arising from species
and ecosystem biodiversity, and from associated biogenetic research,
is captured for the benefit of the CRC partners, AIMS and other stakeholders;
A 3) ensuring that regional and local biosafety agreements, with
regards to Aquaculture, are consistent with international agreements
on IP and biodiscovery, notably the WTO TRIPS agreement.
B) 1 To examine the implications of High Court judgements granting
Native Title to Reefs (Mabo) the Sea (the Olney Judgement) and the
use of biodiversity (Yanner), for indigenous ownership of biodiversity,.
B) 2 To examine the consistency (or otherwise) between provisions
for intellectual property rights to traditional knowledge of flora
and fauna
C) To create an accessible database of international, national and
regional institutions concerning intellectual property to biodiversity,
genetic biodiscovery and biotechnology. The objective of the database
would be to assist all stakeholders with the 'wise use' of the biodiversity
of the GBRWHA, from the genetic to the species to the ecosystem.
[Please note: While the present task proposal concentrates on the
seminal importance of the changing International regimes concerning
intellectual property to biodiversity, and the implications for the
management of the GBRWHA, it is envisaged as a Part I of a two phase
project. The second phase, if accepted, would be devoted to the assessing
the impact and the beneficial use of the provisions of the UN Convention
on the Law of the Sea. It would be timed to coincide with the review
of the UNCLOS 111 in 2004.]
