Federal Negarit Gazeta
13th Year No. 13 ADDIS ABABA-27th February, 2006
Page 3358
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Art. 9 Right to share benefit
1/
Local communities shall have the right to share from the
benefit arising out of the utilization of their community
knowledge;
2/
Local communities shall have the right to obtain 50% of the
benefit shared by the state in the form of money from the
benefits derived out of the utilization of their genetic
resources in accordance with Article 18 (1) of this
proclamation;
3/
The money obtained pursuant to Sub-Article (1) and (2) of
this Article shall be put to the common advantage of the
concerned local communities;
4/
The procedure in accordance to which such monetary shall
be used for the common advantage of local communities
shall be specified by regulation to be issued under this
proclamation.
Protection of Community Rights
1/
The rights of local communities over their genetic resources
and community knowledge shall be protected as they are
enshrined in the customary practices and norms of the
concerned communities.
2/
An item of community knowledge shall be identified,
interpreted and ascertained in accordance with the
customary practices and Norma of the concerned local
community.
3/
The non-registration of any community knowledge shall not
render it unprotected by community rights.
4/
The publication or oral description of a given genetic
resource or a community knowledge, or the presence of the
genetic resources in gene bank or any other conservation
center or that it is in use shall not affect its protection as
community rights.