Resolution No. 72/21 approving, for accession of the Republic of Angola, the Memorandum of Understanding for the Global Information System on Biodiversity.

This Resolution approves, for accession of the Republic of Angola, the Memorandum of Understanding for the Global Information System on Biodiversity (GBIF), signed in March 2011, pursuant to a recommendation of the delegates Members of the Meeting of the Organization for Cooperation Committee and Economic Development (OECD) on Science and Technology Policies, held from 22 to 23 June 1999, in Paris (France). The GBIF objective is to: promote, co-ordinate, design and implement the compilation, linking, standardisation, digitisation and global dissemination of the world’s biodiversity data, within an appropriate framework for property rights and due attribution. GBIF will work in close co-operation with established programmes and organisations that compile, maintain and use biological information resources. The Participants, working through GBIF, will establish and support a distributed information system that will enable users to access and utilize considerable quantities of existing and new biodiversity data.