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APPENDIX 2. Comments On Crop And User Categories (NCP GB7-004) in the Revised Multilateral System

Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group to Enhance the Functioning of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing. Geneva, Switzerland, 12-14 July 2016

Year of publication 2016

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Meeting

Category Meeting document

Edition 1

Language English

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