"Act" means the National Environment Act;
"Authority" means the National Environment
Management Authority established by section 4
of the Act;
"benefit sharing" or "sharing of benefits" means the
sharing of benefits that accrue from the
utilisation of genetic resources and includes
technology, technology transfer, innovations,
practices, results of research, capacity building,
community knowledge, awareness and
education;
"biological resources" includes genetic resources,
organisms or parts of organisms, populations or
other biotic component of ecosystems with
actual or potential value for humanity;
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"ecosystem" means a dynamic complex of plant,
animal and micro-organism communities and
their non-living environment interacting as a
functional unit;
and
"ex situ conditions" means the conditions in which
genetic resources are found outside their natural
habitats;
"CITES Management Authority" means the CITES
Management Authority established under the
Uganda Wildlife Act;
"genetic material" means any material of plant,
animal, microbial or other origin containing
functional units of heredity;
"collector" means a person, or agent of that person,
obtaining or intending to obtain access t(1
genetic resources, their derivative products, or
intangible components occurring or originating
from Uganda;
"genetic resources" means genetic material of actual
or potential use or value, and includes their
derivative products and intangible components;
"bio-prospecting" means the exploration
collection of genetic resources;
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"derivative product" means an unimproved or
unmodified biologically active chemical
compound associated with targeted biological or
genetic material formed by the metabolic
processes of the organism, modified and used in a
technological application, and includes
molecules, combinations or mixtures of natural
molecules including raw extracts of living or dead
organisms and soil matter, deoxyribonucleic acid
(DNA) or ribonucleic acid (RNA) or chemical
compounds, modified, created or synthesised
from genetic material originally obtained in
accordance with these Regulations;
"competent authority" means the Uganda National .
Council for Science and Technology established
under the Uganda National Council for Science
and Technology Act designated to be the
competent authority under regUlation 5;
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"in-situ conditions" means the conditions in which
genetic resources are found in their ecosystems
and natural habitats and, in the case of
domesticated or cultivated species, in the
cultural contexts in which their specific
properties have been developed;
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