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The Nagoya Protocol is a global agreement, supplementary to the
Convention on Biological Diversity, which regulates the fair and
equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilisation of
genetic resources and traditional knowledge associated with them
among the user and provider countries (parties), thereby
contributing to the conservation and sustainability of biological
diversity.
Although it was drafted in 2010 and signed between 2011 and
2012, it only entered into force on October 12, 2014, 90 days after
the fiftieth instrument of ratification was deposited. The Protocol
has 125 members and 127 ratifications (Montenegro and Oman are