Aiming to enhance the functioning of the Treaty’s Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing,  deliberations focused on: the payment structure and rates under the draft revised Standard Material Transfer Agreement; benefit-sharing from digital sequence information/genetic sequence data; and the expansion of the list of crops.

Delegates approved the implementation and review of Global Plans of Action and other activities on plant, animal, aquatic, forest, and microorganism and invertebrate genetic resources for food and agriculture. The Commission also launched two flagship “State of the World” reports on plant and forest genetic resources.