CONAGEBIO

Description

CONAEGBIO is in charge of managing requests for access to biodiversity resources in Costa Rica. It coordinates with Conservation Areas, private sector, Indigenous and rural communities regarding genetic access. Also, it organizes and keeps updated a registry of requests for access to biodiversity elements, ex situ collections, and individuals or legal entities engaged in genetic manipulation, and collects and updates regulations concerning compliance with biodiversity agreements and guidelines. Responsibilities: 1. Formulate national policies related to the conservation, sustainable use, and restoration of biodiversity, by the Convention on Biological Diversity and other relevant international agreements and treaties, as well as national interests. 2. Formulate the policies and responsibilities established in Chapters IV, V, and VI of the biodiversity law, and coordinate them with the various responsible agencies. 3. Formulate and coordinate policies for access to biodiversity elements and associated knowledge that ensure proper scientific and technical transfer and fair distribution of benefits, which, for the purposes of Title V of this law, will be referred to as general standards. 4. Develop the national biodiversity strategy and monitor its implementation. 5. Coordinate and facilitate a comprehensive dissemination process with the country's political, economic, and social sectors regarding conservation policies, ecologically sustainable use, and restoration of biodiversity. 6. Revoke resolutions of the Commission's technical office and the phytosanitary protection service regarding requests for access to biodiversity elements, ensuring all administrative procedures are exhausted. 7. Advise other executive branch bodies, autonomous institutions, and private entities to regulate actions for the ecologically sustainable use of biodiversity elements. 8. Ensure that public and private actions related to biodiversity management elements comply with the policies established by this Commission. 9. Appoint the Secretary of the Commission, who will also serve as the Executive Director of the Technical Office of this same body. 10. Propose to the Minister of Environment and Energy, with due regard for identity criteria, the country's representatives for international meetings related to biodiversity.

Contacts

ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Angela Gonzalez
email: angela.gonzalez@conagebio.go.cr

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Jose Alfredo Hernandez
email: jose.hernandez@conagebio.go.cr

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Hersson Ramírez
Telephone: 86387417
email: hersson.ramirez@conagebio.go.cr

CONAGEBIO
Avenida 8 y 10, Calle 27 A, Barrio Francisco Peralta, Catedral, San José. Contiguo al lado Norte de NIC Costa Rica.
San José
San Jose
CR
email: biodatacr@conagebio.go.cr