Authorization of the Traditional Knowledge Associated Access for Bioprospecting Purposes: The case of UFRJ and the Association of the Oriximiná Quilombola Communities – ARQMO

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, D. R.
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Leitão, S. G., O’Dwyer, E. C., Leitão, G. G., ARQMO, ARQMO
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Fitos
• Texto Completo: https://revistafitos.far.fiocruz.br/index.php/revista-fitos/article/view/104
• topic: Bioprospection; Anthropologic Appraisal; Genetic Heritage; Traditional Knowledge Associated; Prior Informed Consent; Benefit Sharing Contract; Bioprospecção; Laudo Antropológico; Patrimônio Genético; Conhecimento Tradicional Associado; Anuência Prévia; Contrato de Repartição de Benefícios

Although the discussion about prior informed consent and sharing of the benefits has gained projection in Brazil in 1992, with the Convention on Biological Diversity and the ECO-92, only 10 years later the first legislation was published to dispose on the protection, the access to the traditional knowledge associate (CTA) and the sharing of benefits (MP 2186-16 of 2001). Fifteen years later the first authorization to CTA access for bioprospecting in Brazil was emitted, being this one for the present work. Thus, the aim of this article is to discuss, through a case study, involving the Federal University of Rio De Janeiro and the Association of Remaining Communities of Quilombo of the City of Oriximiná, the difficulties to get the authorization of access with the Directing Council of the Genetic Heritage, the anthropologic appraisal and the benefit sharing contract. Although it’s well-known the unpreparedness of the government to deal with the subject, many times harming and making impracticable the national research, on the other hand there are the rights of the communities that must be respected, hoping that the access to their knowledge may bring benefits to the purveyor of the CTA. Thus, the guarantee of these benefits must come through the fulfillment of the current law that still needs to be improved.