ABS Clearing-House API Documentation

Access and Benefit-Sharing Clearing-House (ABSCH)

The Access and Benefit-Sharing Clearing-House (ABSCH) is a platform that supports the Nagoya Protocol. It provides access to information about the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources.

Documented APIs

• User - Authentication — obtain the bearer token used by protected endpoints.
• Contact — create, read, update, delete, list and search.
• Organization — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• Virtual Library Resource — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• Capacity Development Initiative — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• Competent National Authority — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• National Website or Database — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• National Focal Point — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• Checkpoint — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• Checkpoint Communique — create, read, update, delete, list and search.
• Community Protocol — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• Internationally Recognized Certificate of Compliance — create, read, update, delete, list and search.
• Measure — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• National Model Contractual Clause — search, get and field reference (read-only).
• ABS Procedure — search, get and field reference (read-only).

The documentation is being rebuilt one record type at a time; sections appear here as they complete review. See Record Types for the documented set, Realms for request routing, and Custom Types for the field types used in the tables.