2 Amendments of Bill NEWTON DUNN related to 2012/2135(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the fact that, although there is no general definition of the term ‘biopiracy’, it usually refers to the misappropriation of and/or illicitly benefiting commercially from industrial practice of privatising and patenting products based on the traditional knowledge or genetic resources of indigenous peoples, without authorisation or providing compensation to source countries;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Notes that pharmaceutical industry research utilizing natural products has been in sharp decline for many years as it has been superseded by more advanced approaches to drug discovery;