A/HRC/36/58 LVC 4. States shall take effective measures to ensure that no hazardous materials or substances, weapons and ammunitions that could affect biodiversity and the safe or productive use of land, are stored or disposed of on the land or territories of peasants and other people working in rural areas without their free, prior and informed consent, and shall cooperate to address the threats to the enjoyment of their rights that result from transboundary environmental harm and to enforce the responsibility of polluter to restore. Paragraph 5 EU 5. States shall protect peasants and other people persons working in rural areas against abuses by non-State actors, including by enforcing environmental laws that contribute, directly or indirectly, to the protection of the rights of peasants or other people working in rural areas. Article 19. Right to seeds Peru, comment <Debe especificarse que deben excluirse del ámbito de regulación de este artículo las especias alimenticias y forrajes incluidos en el anexo I del Tratado Internacional sobre los Recursos Filogenéticos para la Alimentación y la Agricultura.> RIDH, comment <Este artículo se refiere al derecho a las semillas; es necesario ampliar el concepto e incluir el derecho a la riqueza zoogenética.> EU Article 19. Right Access to seeds BESH Article 19: Right to seeds and to breeds RIDH Artículo 19: Derecho a las semillas la riqueza genética Guatemala: reservation to the whole article Switzerland: Replace the whole article with article 9 of ITPRGFA 1. States shall recognize the enormous contribution that the local and indigenous communities and farmers of all regions of the world, particularly those in the centres of origin and crop diversity, have made and will continue to make for the conservation and development of plant genetic resources which constitute the basis of food and agriculture production throughout the world. 2. States shall agree that the responsibility for realizing Farmers’ Rights, as they relate to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, rests with national governments. In accordance with their needs and priorities, each Contracting Party should, as appropriate, and subject to its national legislation, take measures to protect and promote Farmers’ Rights, including: a) protection of traditional knowledge relevant to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture; b) the right to equitably participate in sharing benefits arising from the utilization of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture; and c) the right to participate in making decisions, at the national level, on matters related to the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. 63

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