In December 2017, the United Nations General Assembly decided to convene an intergovernmental conference to elaborate an international legally binding instrument on marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. This legally binding instrument would address four elements, namely marine protected areas, marine genetic resources, environmental impact assessments and capacity building and technology transfer. One of the indicators for the success of the legally binding instrument will be an institutional mechanism that is both effective and that can co-exist with existing mechanisms. There is already a proposal for an institutional mechanism under the implementing agreement. However, the proposed institutional mechanism was developed largely with marine protected areas in mind. The purpose of this article is to determine whether this proposed mechanism could work also for the marine genetic resources element of the proposed treaty. This is necessitated by the fact that the marine genetic resources element of the proposed treaty is far more complex and raises issues that are more intractable.

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根据拟议的国家管辖范围以外区域海洋生物多样性条约处理海洋遗传资源的体制框架

2017 年 12 月，联合国大会决定召开政府间会议，拟定一项关于国家管辖范围以外区域海洋生物多样性的具有法律约束力的国际文书。这份具有法律约束力的文书将涉及四个要素，即海洋保护区、海洋遗传资源、环境影响评估以及能力建设和技术转让。具有法律约束力的文书成功的指标之一将是一种既有效又可以与现有机制共存的体制机制。已经在执行协议下提出了建立体制机制的建议。然而，拟议的体制机制主要是在考虑到海洋保护区的情况下制定的。本条的目的是确定这一拟议机制是否也适用于拟议条约的海洋遗传资源要素。这是因为拟议条约的海洋遗传资源要素要复杂得多，并提出了更棘手的问题。