ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Australia’s implementation of the Bonn Guidelines on Access to Genetic Resources and Fair and Equitable Sharing of the Benefits Arising Out of Their Utilization (the Bonn Guidelines) in order to see to what extent its national policy, its ABS law and its ABS administrative arrangements represent the development of a model ABS law and implementation. The chapter will also analyse the Australian law to identify legal solutions it has developed to address policy issues going beyond the Bonn Guidelines. It will consider these solutions to see what contribution they may make to the current debates underway in the development of the International Regime on Access and Benefit Sharing.
