Mr. Alan Moore:

The third pillar of the Convention on Biological Diversity already deals with access and benefit-sharing and makes it a pillar of the convention. The purpose of the Nagoya Protocol is to provide clarity and a strong legal framework to ensure that obligations around benefit-sharing are met and to enable parties to the convention to put in place, at national level, legal obligations on users, as the Minister of State pointed out. The motivation behind the protocol is to ensure for the providers, which are generally countries with less-developed economies, island states or vulnerable nations, that the benefits derived from the use of these genetic resources in more developed states, namely, those in the EU and Asia, and the UK, are shared in a way that is agreed upon at the outset. In other words, there would be a process to come up with mutually agreed terms that are put into a clearing house set up under the protocol. This ensures that parties will see their obligations through to the end. This is the motivation behind it.