Resumed Ninth Meeting of the Interregional NegotiatingGroup (ING) of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing, which finally resulted in the adoption of the The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity. (HM, FM, AL, HP, CvW)