Legislation Tracker
Which countries are taking measures that encourage companies to contribute to the Cali Fund?
The international agreement establishing the Cali Fund invites countries to "take administrative, policy or legislative measures" that incentivise contributions to the Cali Fund.
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countries with legislation encouraging Cali Fund contributions
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countries where such legislation is under discussion
Germany
- Friends of the Cali Fund Member: yes
- CBD Party
- Nagoya Party
- BBNJ Agreement Party
- No Legislation or administrative measure proposed yet (reached)
- Legislation or administrative measure proposed
- Legislation introduced
- Legislation passed into law
- Legislation or administrative measure in effect
Overview
Germany has not yet adopted a specific financial incentive for Cali Fund contributions. However, it has initiated stakeholder consultations to identify suitable incentives for commercial DSI users and is exploring additional measures to encourage contributions.
Proposed legislation / administrative measure
Germany organised two ABS Round Tables in 2025. The first brought together commercial DSI users and professional associations across the sectors identified in Decision 16/2 to discuss potential government incentives and ways for businesses to engage proactively in benefit-sharing. The second included both commercial and non-commercial users and focused on concrete options for incentivising payments to the Cali Fund, including alternative financing models.
Germany also commissioned the FAR-DSI (Feasibility Assessment of Regulation of Digital Sequence Information) project to assess the technical and organisational feasibility of implementing paragraph 10 of Decision 16/2 for global database infrastructures. The project developed draft template language for Terms of Use and Data Submission Agreements and assessed its applicability across different database types.
Key developments
Statements
24 June 2026 - State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth said the Friends of the Cali Fund give governments and businesses a platform to design an effective, low-bureaucracy and voluntary funding structure, and that it is particularly important to include the interests and views of industry (BMUKN press release 078/26).
ABS legislation
Regulation (EU) No 511/2014 applied directly, plus the Act Implementing the Nagoya Protocol (Gesetz zur Umsetzung der Verpflichtungen nach dem Nagoya-Protokoll, 2015) and the Federal Nature Conservation Act.
Regulatory context
As an EU Member State, Germany applies Regulation (EU) No 511/2014 directly, with the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) acting as competent authority for due-diligence checks. Germany does not require prior informed consent for access to its own genetic resources. DSI falls outside the user-compliance regime, so the government is focusing on voluntary incentives developed with industry.