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ACT

SALIENT PROVISIONS OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY ACT, 2002

  • Section - 3: All foreign national require approval from NBA for obtaining Biological Resources.

  • Section - 4: Indian individuals/entities to seek approval before transferring
    knowledge / research and material to foreigners.

  • Section - 5: Guidelines for Government sponsored collaborative research projects.

  • Section - 6: Prior approval of NBA before applying for any kind of IPR based on research conducted on biological material and or associated knowledge obtained from India.

  • Section - 7: Indians required to provide prior intimation to State Biodiversity Boards for obtaining biological material for commercial purposes. SBB can regulate such access.

  • Growers and cultivators of Biological Diversity and vaids and hakims who are practicing Indian system of medicines and local people exempted.

  • Section - 8: Establishment of NBA, its composition.

  • Section - 13: Committees of NBA

  • Section - 18: Functions and powers of NBA

  • Section - 19: Approval by the NBA

  • Section - 21: Determination of equitable benefit sharing by NBA

  • Section - 22: Establishment of State Bio-diversity Boards

  • Section - 23: Function of the State Bio-diversity Boards

  • Section - 24: Powers of State Bio-diversity Boards

  • Section - 26 : National Biodiversity Fund

  • Section -  32: State Bio-diversity Fund

  • Section - 36: Central Government to develop National strategies, plans etc. for conservation of biodiversity.

  • Section - 36: (1A): Central Government to issue direction to State Governments to take corrective measures for conservation of biodiversity

  • Section - 36 (3)(i): Impact assessment of developmental projects on biodiversity

  • Section - 36 (3)(ii): Regulate release of GMOs

  • Section - 36 (4): Measures for protecting the traditional knowledge

  • Section - 37: Biodiversity heritage sites

  • Section - 38: Notifications of threatened species

  • Section - 39: Designation of repositories

  • Section - 40: Exemption for normally traded commodities from purview of the act.

  • Section - 41: Establishment of Biodiversity Management Committees by local bodies.

  • Section - 42: Local Biodiversity Fund

  • Section - 52 A: Appeals to High Court on the decision of NBA / SBB

  • Section - 53 B: Orders of NBA / SBB at par with civil courts.

  • Section - 55: Penalties - imprisonment upto 5 years and or a fine of 10 lakhs or to the extent of damage caused.

  • Section - 59: Act to have effect in addition to other Acts

  • Section - 61: Cognizance of offences

  • Section - 62: Power of Central Government to make Rules

  • Section - 63: Power of State Government to make Rules

  • Section - 64:  Power to make regulations

  • Section - 65:  Power to remove difficulties

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