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International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- 00 - Preamble
- 01 - Objectives
- 02 - Use of terms
- 03 - Scope
- 04 - General Obligations
- 05 - Conservation, Exploration, Collection, Characterization, Evaluation and Documentation of Plant Genetic Resources...
- 06 - Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources
- 07 - National Commitments and International Cooperation
- 08 - Technical Assistance
- 09 - Farmers’ Rights
- 10 - Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing
- 11 - Coverage of the Multilateral System
- 12 - Facilitated access to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture within the Multilateral System
- 13 - Benefit-sharing in the Multilateral System
- 14 - Global Plan of Action
- 15 - Ex Situ Collections of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture held by ...
- 16 - International Plant Genetic Resources Networks
- 17 - The Global Information System on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- 18 - Financial Resources
- 19 - Governing Body
- 20 - Secretary
- 21 - Compliance
- 22 - Settlement of Disputes
- 23 - Amendments of the Treaty
- 24 - Annexes
- 25 - Signature
- 26 - Ratification, Acceptance or Approval
- 27 - Accession
- 28 - Entry into force
- 29 - Member Organizations of FAO
- 30 - Reservations
- 31 - Non-Parties
- 32 - Withdrawals
- 33 - Termination
- 34 - Depositary
- 35 - Authentic Texts
- Annex II Part 1 Arbitration
- Annex II Part 2 Conciliation
- Annex I List of Crops Covered under the Multilateral System
29.1 When a Member Organization of FAO deposits an instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession for this Treaty, the Member Organization shall, in accordance with the provisions of Article II.7 of the FAO Constitution, notify any change regarding its distribution of competence to its declaration of competence submitted under Article II.5 of the FAO Constitution as may be necessary in light of its acceptance of this Treaty. Any Contracting Party to this Treaty may, at any time, request a Member Organization of FAO that is a Contracting Party to this Treaty to provide information as to which, as between the Member Organization and its member states, is responsible for the implementation of any particular matter covered by this Treaty. The Member Organization shall provide this information within a reasonable time.
29.2 Instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval, accession or withdrawal, deposited by a Member Organization of FAO, shall not be counted as additional to those deposited by its Member States.





