With this Notice, the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism has exempted from Chapter 6 of the National Environmental Management Biodiversity Act, 2004, the indigenous biological resources or activities relating to indigenous biological resources set out in the Schedule. The exemptions include: non-commercial domestic research other than bioprospecting; approved export of ex situ indigenous biological resources for purposes of research other than bioprospecting; trade in commercial products purchased from a bioprospector who complies with Regulations on Bioprospecting, Access and Benefit-sharing; the keeping, breeding, cultivation, moving, trading and use of wildlife not directed at the development and production of specified products; the collection, use, propagation cultivation or trade of indigenous biological resources for domestic use or subsistence purposes; and aquaculture or mariculture activities involving fresh water and marine species producing specimens for consumption purposes.
South Africa · 2008-02-08