Within CABRI, each collection has to pay attention to applicable international, European and national laws and regulations. The respective international laws and regulations are shown in the following list. The texts of these laws and regulations are available at the collections.

• Convention on Biological Diversity 1992. In: B. E. Kirsop and D. L. Hawksworth (eds.), The Biodiversity of Micro-organisms and the Role of Microbial Resource Centres, page 73-91. World Federation of Culture Collections, 1994

• Universal Postal Union, Official compendium of general information of interest concerning the implementation of the 1995 Seoul Convention and its Detailed Regulations. International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union, Berne, 1996 (The relevant chapters are reproduced in Rohde and Claus, Shipping of infectious, non-infectious and genetically modified biological materials – International regulations, 1998 edition, DSMZ – Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen)
• International Air Transport Association, IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations, 39^th edition, Montreal, 1998 (The relevant chapters are reproduced in Rohde and Claus, Shipping of infectious, non-infectious and genetically modified biological materials – International regulations, 1998 edition, DSMZ – Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen)

• Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Micro-organisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure (Budapest, April 28, 1977; amended on September 26, 1980).World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, http://www.wipo.org/eng/iplex/wo_bud0_.htm

Guidelines prepared for CABRI by CERDIC, DSMZ, ECACC, INRC, November 1998
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