PROVISIONAL MEASURE NO. 2.126-13, OF June 22, 2001

Regulates the inciso II of § 1º and § 4º of the art. 225 of the Constitution, the arts. 1º, 8º, point? j?, 10, paragraph (c), 15 and 16, points 3 and 4 of the Convention on Biological Diversity, provides on access to genetic heritage, protection and access to associated traditional knowledge, apportionment of benefits and access to technology and technology transfer for its conservation and use, and gives other arrangements.

THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the exercise of the post of President of the Republic, using the attribution that gives him the art. 62 of the Constitution, adopts the following Provisional Measure, with force of law:

CHAPTER I

OF THE GENERAL PROVISIONS

Art. 1º This Interim Measles provides on the goods, the rights and the relative obligations:

I-to access the component of the existing genetic heritage in the national territory, on the continental shelf and in the exclusive economic zone for the purposes of scientific research, development technological or bioprospecting;

II-to access to traditional knowledge associated with genetic heritage, relevant to the conservation of biological diversity, to the integrity of the country's genetic heritage and to the use of its components;

III-to the fair and eequitative allocation of the benefits derived from the component exploration of genetic heritage and associated traditional knowledge; and

IV-to access to technology and transfer of technology for the conservation and use of biological diversity.

§ 1º Access to the component of genetic heritage for the purposes of scientific research, technological development or bioprospection will be far in the form of this Provisional Measure, without prejudice to the material or immaterial property rights that focus on the component of the genetic heritage accessed or on the site of its occurrence.

§ 2º The access to the component of the genetic heritage existing on the continental shelf will observe the provisions of Law No. 8,617 of January 4, 1993.

Art. 2º Access to the existing genetic heritage in the Country will only be done upon authorization of the Union and shall have its use, marketing and exploitation for any purposes subjected to the surveillance, restrictions and distribution of benefits under the terms and conditions set out in this Interim Measment and in its Regulation.

Art. 3º This Interim Measment does not apply to human genetic heritage.

Art. 4º It is preserved the exchange and component diffusion of the genetic heritage and associated traditional knowledge practiced with one another by Indigenous communities and local communities for their own benefit and based on customary practice.

Art. 5º It is vetoed the access to genetic heritage for harmful practices to the environment and to the human health and for the development of biological and chemical weapons.

Art. 6º At any time, there is consistent scientific evidence of danger of serious and irreversible harm to biological diversity, arising from activities practiced in the form of this Provisional Measure, the Public Power, through the Board of Management of Genetic Heritage, envisaged in art. 10, on the basis of criteria and technical advice, shall determine measures designed to prevent the damage, and may, including, sustain the activity, respected the competence of the organ responsible for the biosafeing of genetically modified organisms.

CHAPTER II

DAS DEFINITIONS

Art. 7º In addition to the concepts and the definitions set out in the Convention on Biological Diversity, it considers itself for the purposes of this Measure Provisional:

I-genetic heritage: information of genetic origin, contained in samples of the whole or part of plant, fungal, microbial or animal specimens, in the form of molecules and substances from metabolism of these living beings and from extracts obtained from these living or dead organisms, found in in situconditions, including domesticated, or kept in ex situcollections, provided that they collected under in situ conditions on the national territory, on the continental shelf or in the exclusive economic zone;

II-associated traditional knowledge: information or individual or collective practice of Indigenous community or local community, with real or potential value, associated with genetic heritage;

III-local community: human group, including remnants of communities of quilombos, distinct by their cultural conditions, which traditionally organizes for successive generations and own customs, and that repairing its social and economic institutions;

IV-access to genetic heritage: obtaining sample of component of genetic heritage for purposes of scientific research, technological development or bioprospecting, aiming at its industrial or other nature application;

V-access to the associated traditional knowledge: obtaining information about individual or collective knowledge or practice, associated with heritage genetic, indigenous community or local community, for the purposes of scientific research, technological development or bioprospecting, aiming for their industrial or other nature application;

VI-access to technology and technology transfer: action that is aimed at the access, development and transfer of technology for the conservation and utilization of biological diversity or technology developed from component of heritage component genetic or associated traditional knowledge;

VII-bioprospecting: exploratory activity that aims to identify component of the genetic heritage and information on associated traditional knowledge, with potential for use commercial;

VIII-threatened species of extinction: species with high risk of disappearance in the near future, thus recognized by the competent authority;

IX-domesticated species: the one in whose evolution process has influenced the human being to meet their needs;

X-Access and Shipping Authorization: document that allows, under specific conditions, access to component sample of genetic heritage and its shipment to the addressable institution and access to associated traditional knowledge;

XI-Special Access and Shipping Authorization: document that allows, under specific conditions, access to component sample of the genetic heritage and its remittance to the recipient institution and access to associated traditional knowledge, with duration of up to two years, renewable for equal periods;

XII-Material Transfer Term: instrument of accession to be firmed up by the recipient institution prior to the shipment of any component sample of the genetic heritage, indicating, when it is the case, whether there was access to associated traditional knowledge;

XIII -Contract of Use of Genetic Heritage and Benefits partition: multilateral legal instrument, which qualifies the parts, object and conditions of access and shipment of component of genetic heritage and traditional knowledge associated, as well as the conditions for reaping benefits;

XIV-condition ex situ: component maintenance of component of genetic heritage outside their natural habitat, in living or dead collections.

CHAPTER III

OF THE ASSOCIATED TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE PROTECTION

Art. 8º Stay protected by this Interim Measure the traditional knowledge of Indigenous communities and of the Local communities, associated with genetic heritage, against the illicit use and exploitation and other aggrieved or unauthorized actions by the Management Board of which it treats art. 10, or by accredited institution.

§ 1º The State recognizes the right of Indigenous communities and local communities to decide on the use of their traditional knowledge associated with the genetic heritage of the Country, pursuant to this Provisional Measure and its Regulation.

§ 2º The traditional knowledge associated with the genetic heritage of which it treats this Provisional Measure integrates the Brazilian cultural heritage and could be the object of enrollment, as the Board of Management or specific legislation disposes.

§ 3º The protection heard by this Provisional Measure shall not be construed so as to preclude the preservation, use and development of traditional knowledge of Indigenous community or local community.

§ 4º The protection ora instituted will not affect, harm, or limit rights concerning intellectual property.

Art. 9º À indigenous community and the local community that create, develop, detain or retain traditional knowledge associated with genetic heritage, is guaranteed the right to:

I-have indicated the origin of access to knowledge traditional in all publications, uses, exploits and disclosures;

II-prevent unauthorized third parties from:

a) use, conduct tests, research or exploration, related to knowledge traditional associate;

b) disclose, transmit, or relay data or information that integrates or constitutes associated traditional knowledge;

III-perceive benefits by economic exploitation by third parties, directly or indirectly, of associated traditional knowledge, whose rights are of their title, pursuant to this Interim Measure.

Single paragraph. For the purpose of this Provisional Measure, any traditional knowledge associated with genetic heritage may be of entitlement to the community, yet only an individual, member of that community, detains that knowledge.

CHAPTER IV

OF THE COMPETENCIES AND INSTITUTIONAL ASSIGNMENTS

Art. 10. It is created, within the framework of the Ministry of the Environment, the Board of Management of Genetic Heritage, of deliberative and normative character, composed of representatives of organs and entities of the Federal Public Administration who hold competence over the various actions of which it treats this Provisional Measure.

§ 1º The Board of Management will be chaired by the representative of the Ministry of the Environment.

§ 2º The Management Board will have its composition and its functioning laid down in the regulation.

Art. 11. It is incumbent on the Board of Management:

I-coordinate the implementation of policies for the management of genetic heritage;

II-establish:

a) technical standards;

b) criteria for access and remittance authorizations;

c) guidelines for drafting of the Genetic Heritage Utilization Contract and the Benefits partition;

d) criteria for the foundational creation of data for the record of information on associated traditional knowledge;

III-follow, in articulation with federal bodies, or upon convenium with other institutions, the access activities and sample remittance of component of genetic heritage and access to associated traditional knowledge;

IV-deliberation on:

a) access and shipment authorization of component sample of genetic heritage, upon prior annuence of its holder;

b) authorization of access to associated traditional knowledge, upon prior annuence of its holder;

c) special access and sample remittance authorization of component of the genetic heritage to the national, public or private institution, which exerts research and development activity in the biological and related areas, and to the national, public or private university, with duration of up to two years, renewable for equal periods, pursuant to the regulation;

d) special access permission to traditional knowledge associated with the national, public or private institution, which carries out research and development activity in the biological and related areas, and to the national, public or private university, with a term of up to two years, renewable for equal periods, pursuant to the regulation;

e) accreditation of national public institution of research and development or from federal public institution of management to authorize another national, public or private institution, which exerts research and development activity in the biological and related areas:

1. accessing sample of component of the genetic heritage and associated traditional knowledge;

2. to refer a component sample of the genetic heritage to national, public or private institution, or to institution based abroad;

f) accreditation of national public institution to be faithful trustee of sample of component of genetic heritage;

V-give annuence to Genetic Heritage Utilization Contracts and the Repartition of Benefits as to the fulfillment of the requirements set out in this Interim Measuration and in its Regulation;

VI-promoting debates and public consultations on the topics of which it treats this Provisional Measure;

VII-function as an upper instance of appeal in relation to institution decision accredited and the acts arising from the application of this Provisional Measure;

VIII-approve your internal regiment.

§ 1º Of the decisions of the Management Board will be able to appeal to the plenary, in the form of the regulation.

§ 2º The Board of Management will be able to organize itself into thematic chambers, to subsidize plenary decisions.

Art. 12. The component collection activity of the genetic heritage and access to associated traditional knowledge, which contributes to the advancement of knowledge and that is not associated with bioprospecting, when it involves the participation of legal person foreign, will be authorized by the body responsible for national scientific and technological research policy, observed the determinations of this Provisional Measure and the prevailing legislation.

Single paragraph. The authorization provided for in the caput of this article will observe the technical standards set by the Management Board, which will exercise supervision of these activities.

Art. 13. It is incumbent upon the President of the Management Board to, on behalf of the Union, Contract of Use of Genetic Heritage and Benefit Partition.

§ 1º Held the competence of which treats the caput of this article, the Chairman of the Board of Management will subdelegate to the holder of federal public institution of research and development or federal public institution of management the competency provided for in the caput of this article, as per its respective area of acting.

§ 2º When the institution provided for in § 1º is a stakeholder in the contract, this shall be affirmed by the President of the Management Board.

Art. 14. It will be up to the accredited institution that they treat the numbers 1 and 2 of the paragraph ' e of the inciso IV of the art. 11 of this Provisional Measure one or more of the following assignments, observed the guidelines of the Board of Management:

I-analyze application and issue, to third parties, authorization:

a) of access to sample of component of the existing genetic heritage under in situ conditions in the national territory, on the continental shelf and in the exclusive economic zone, upon prior annuence of their holders;

b) of access to knowledge traditional associate, upon prior annuence of area holders;

c) of component remittance of component of the genetic heritage to national, public or private institution, or to institution based abroad;

II-accompany, in articulation with federal bodies, or upon convenium with other institutions, the access and remittance activities of component of the genetic heritage component and access to traditional knowledge associated;

III-create and maintain:

a) enrollment of ex situcollections, as predicted in art. 18 of this Provisional Measure;

b) database for record of information obtained during the component sample collection of the genetic heritage;

c) database relating to Access and Permit Authorizations Shipping, the Terms of Material Transfer and the Utilization Contracts of Genetic Heritage and the Benefits of Benefits, in the form of the regulation;

IV-disclose, periodically, list of Access Authorizations and of Shipment, of the Material Transfer Terms and the Utilization Contracts of Genetic Heritage and the Benefits of Benefits;

V-follow up the implementation of the Material Transfer Terms and the Contracts of Use of the Genetic Heritage and Benefits of Benefits regarding the processes by it authorized.

§ 1º The accredited institution should, annually, by reporting, give full knowledge to the Board of Management on the activity carried out and re-passing copy of the databases to the executor unit provided for in the art. 15.

§ 2º The accredited institution, in the form of the art. 11, shall observe compliance with the provisions of this Provisional Measure, its Regulation and the decisions of the Management Board, under penalty of its describing, staying, still, subject to the application, in what couber, of the penalties provided for in the art. 30 and in the prevailing legislation.

Art. 15. It is authorized to set up, within the framework of the Ministry of the Environment, of the executor unit that will exercise the function of executive secretary of the Management Board, of which it treats art. 10 of this Provisional Measure, with the following assignments, among others:

I-implement the deliberations of the Board of Management;

II-support the accredited institutions;

III- issue, according to deliberation of the Board of Management and on its behalf:

a) Access and Shipment Authorization;

b) Special Access and Shipping Authorization;

IV-follow-up, in articulation with the remaining federal bodies, the access and remittance activities of component of the genetic heritage component and access to associated traditional knowledge;

V-accreditation, according to deliberation of the Board of Management and on its behalf, national public institution for research and development or federal public institution of management to authorize national, public or private institution:

a) to access component sample of the genetic heritage and associated traditional knowledge;

b) to send sample of component of genetic heritage to national, public or private institution, or to institution based abroad, respected the requirements of art. 19 of this Provisional Measure;

VI-accreditation, according to deliberation by the Board of Management and on its behalf, national public institution to be faithful depository of component sample of the genetic heritage;

VII-register the Genetic Heritage Utilization Contracts and the Repartition of Benefits, following the Management Board's annuence;

VIII-release list of exchange species facilitated constants of agreements international, including on food security, of which the Country is a signatory, in accordance with § 2º of the art. 19 of this Provisional Measure;

IX-create and maintain:

a) enrollment of ex situcollections, as predicted in art. 18;

b) database for record of information obtained during the component collection of component of the genetic heritage;

c) database relating to Access and Shipment Authorizations, to the Terms of Transfer of Material and the Genetic Heritage Utilization Contracts and Benefits Breakdown;

X-disclose, periodically, list of Access and Shipment Authorizations, of the Material Transfer Terms and of the Genetic Heritage Utilization Contracts and the Benefits Partition.

CHAPTER V

ACCESS AND SHIPMENT

Art. 16. Access to the existing genetic heritage component under in situ conditions on the national territory, on the continental shelf and in the exclusive economic zone, and to the associated traditional knowledge will be done by collecting sample and from information, respectively, and will only be authorized to the national, public or private institution, which carries out research and development activities in the biological and related areas, upon prior authorization, in the form of this Interim Measiness.

§ 1º The responsible for the collection dispatch is due to the termination of their activities in each area accessed, sign up with their holder or representative declaration containing listing of the material accessed, in the form of the regulation.

§ 2º Exceptionally, in cases where the area holder or his representative is not identified or located on the occasion of the collection expedition, the declaration containing listing of the accessorized material shall be signed by the responsible by the expedition and forwarded to the Board of Management.

§ 3º representative Sub-sample of each population component of the accessed genetic heritage shall be deposited in ex situ condition in accredited institution as faithful depositary, of which it treats point? f? of the inciso IV of the art. 11 of this Provisional Measure, in the form of the regulation.

§ 4º When there is a commercial use perspective, the access to component sample of the genetic heritage, under in situconditions, and to the associated traditional knowledge can only occur after signing of Genetic Heritage Utilization Contract and Benefits partition.

§ 5º Case be identified potential of economic, product or process use, passable or non-protection intellectual, sourced from component sample of the genetic heritage and information coming from traditional associated knowledge, accessed on the basis of authorization that did not establish this hypothesis, the institution where the access process originated and of remittance, for the formalization of Genetic Heritage Utilization Contract and Benefits partition.

§ 6º The participation of foreign legal person on dispatch for sample collection of the heritage component genetic in situ and for access of traditional associated knowledge will only be authorized when in conjunction with national public institution, by staying the coordination of the activities mandatorily borne by the latter and provided that all the institutions involved exercise research and development activities in the biological and related areas.

§ 7º Research on components of genetic heritage is to be carried out preferentially on the national territory.

§ 8º Access and Remittance Authorization of component of the genetic heritage of species of strict or endangered endemism species will depend on the prior annuence of the competent organ.

§ 9º A Access and Shipment Authorization will give after prior annuence:

I-of the Indigenous community involved, heard the official indigenistic organ, when access occurs on Indigenous land;

II-of the organ competent, when access occurs in protected area;

III-from the private area holder, when access to it occurs;

IV-of the National Defence Council, when access is given in an indispensable area to the national security;

V-of the maritime authority, when the access gives itself in Brazilian jurisdictional waters, on the continental shelf and in the exclusive economic zone.

§ 10. The Access and Shipment Authorization holder of which they treat the incisors I to V of § 9º of this article shall be liable to ressarate the holder of the area for possible damage or damage, provided that it is duly substantiated.

§ 11. The institution holder of Special Access and Shipment Authorization will refer to the Management Board the annuences of which they treat § § 8º and 9º of this article before or on the occasion of the collection expeditions to be effected during the period of duration of the Authorization, the discompliance of which will entail its cancellation.

Art. 17. In the event of relevant public interest, thus characterized by the Board of Management, the ticket in public or private area for access to the component sample of the genetic heritage will waived prior annuence of its holders, guaranteed to these the willing in the arts. 24 and 25 of this Provisional Measure.

§ 1º In the case provided for in the caput of this article, the indigenous community, the local community or the owner should be informed beforehand.

§ 2º In addressing of indigenous land, shall observe the provisions of § 6º of the art. 231 of the Federal Constitution.

Art. 18. The conservation ex situ of component sample of the genetic heritage is to be carried out on the national territory, and may, in addition, at the discretion of the Board of Management, be carried out abroad.

§ 1º The collections ex situ of component sample of the genetic heritage should be enrolled with the managing unit of the Management Board as it disposes the regulation.

§ 2º The Management Board may delegate the enrollment of which it treats § 1º of this article to one or more accredited institutions in the form of the "d" and "e" and the inciso IV of the art. 11 of this Provisional Measure.

Art. 19. Sample shipment of component of the genetic heritage of national, public or private institution, to another national, public or private institution, will be carried out from material under conditions ex situ, upon information of use intended, observed the cumulative fulfillment of the following conditions, in addition to others that the Management Board comes to establish:

I-deposit of representative sub-sample of component of genetic heritage in collection maintained by accredited institution, if it has not yet been complied with the provisions of § 3º of the art. 16 of this Interim Measurement;

II-in the component cases of the component of the genetic heritage accessed under conditions in situ, before the edition of this Interim Measurement, the deposit of which treats the previous inciso will be made in the form accessed, if still available, in the terms of the regulation;

III-provision of information obtained during the component collection of the genetic heritage component for registration in the database mentioned in the "b" inciso III of the art. 14 and point "b" of the inciso IX of the art. 15 of this Provisional Measure;

IV-prior signature of Material Transfer Term.

§ 1º Whenever there is prospect of commercial use of product or process resulting from the use of component of genetic heritage will be required the prior signing of Genetic Heritage Utilization Contract and of Benefit Breakdown.

§ 2º The component shipment of component of the genetic heritage of species deemed to be of exchange facilitated in international agreements, including on food security, of which the Country is a signatory, should be effected in accordance with the conditions laid down in them, kept the requirements of them constant.

§ 3º The remittance of any component sample of the genetic heritage of national, public or private institution, to institution based abroad, will be effected from material under conditions ex situ, upon information of the intended use and prior authorization of the Management Board or accredited institution, observed the cumulative fulfillment of the conditions set forth in the incisses I to IV and § § 1º and 2º of this article.

Art. 20. The Material Transfer Term will have its model approved by the Board of Management.

CHAPTER VI

FROM ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

Art. 21. The institution receiving a component sample of the genetic heritage or associated traditional knowledge will facilitate access to technology and technology transfer for the conservation and utilization of this heritage or that knowledge to the national institution responsible for the access and remittance of the sample and the information about the knowledge, or institution by it indicated.

Art. 22. The access to technology and technology transfer between national research and development institution, public or private, and institution based abroad, will be able to take place, among other activities, upon:

I- scientific research and technological development;

II-formation and empowerment of human resources;

III-exchange of information;

IV-exchange between national institution of research and research institution based abroad;

V-consolidation of scientific research and technological development infrastructure;

VI-economic exploration, in partnership, of process and product derived from the use of component of genetic heritage; and

VII-establishment of joint technological base venture.

Art. 23. The company that, in the process of ensuring access to technology and technology transfer to the national, public or private institution, responsible for the access and shipment of component sample of the genetic heritage and for access to information on associate traditional knowledge, invest in research and development activity in the Country, will jus the tax incentive for the technological empowerment of industry and agri-farming, and other stimulus instruments, in the form of the legislation pertinent.

CHAPTER VII

OF THE BENEFITS APPORTIONMENT

Art. 24. The benefits resulting from the economic exploitation of product or process developed from component of component of the genetic heritage and associated traditional knowledge, obtained by national institution or institution based in the exterior, will be reparties, fairly and ethly, between the contracting parties, as the regulation and the relevant legislation.

Single paragraph. To the Union, when it is not a party to the Genetic Heritage Utilization Contract and the Repartition of Benefits, it shall be ensured, in what couber, the participation in the benefits referred to in the caput of this article, in the form of the regulation.

Art. 25. The benefits arising from the economic exploitation of product or process, developed from sample of the genetic heritage or associated traditional knowledge, will be able to constitute, among others, of:

I-division of profits;

II-payment of royalties;

III-access and transfer of technologies;

IV-licensing, free of burden, of products and processes; and

V- empowerment of human resources.

Art. 26. The economic exploitation of product or process developed from component sample of the genetic heritage or associated traditional knowledge, accessed at odds with the provisions of this Provisional Measure, will subject the offender to the payment of severance corresponding to, at a minimum, twenty percent of the gross billing obtained in the marketing of product or royalties obtained from third parties by the offender, due to licensing of product or process or the use of the technology, protected or not by intellectual property, without prejudice to the administrative and criminal penalties cableable.

Art. 27. The contract for the Use of Genetic Heritage and Benefits of Benefits should indicate and qualify with clarity the contracting parties, being on one side the owner of the public or private area, or the representative of the Indigenous community and the official indigenist organ, or the representative of the local community and, of another, the national institution authorized to effectuate and the addressable institution.

Art. 28. They are essential clauses of the Genetic Heritage Utilization Contract and the Repartition of Benefits, in the form of the regulation, without prejudice to others, the ones they have about:

I-object, its elements, quantification of the sample and intended use;

II-duration of duration;

III-form of fair and eequitative allocation of benefits and, when it is the case, access to technology and technology transfer;

IV-rights and responsibilities of the parties;

V-right of intellectual property;

VI-termination;

VII-penalties;

VIII-venue in Brazil.

Single paragraph. When the Union is a party, the contract referred to in the caput of this article shall be governed by the legal regime of public law.

Art. 29. The Genetic Heritage Utilization and Benefits Partition Contracts will be submitted for registration in the Management Board and will only be effective after your annuence.

Single paragraph. They will be void, not generating any legal effect, the Genetic Heritage Utilization Contracts and the Repartition of Benefits firmed up at odds with the devices of this Interim Measulate and its regulation.

CHAPTER VIII

OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE SANCTIONS

Art. 30. Administrative infringement is considered against the genetic heritage or the associated traditional knowledge all action or omission that violates the norms of this Provisional Measure and too much relevant legal provisions.

§ 1º As administrative infractions will be punished in the form set out in the regulation of this Provisional Measure, with the following sanctions:

I-warning;

II-fine;

III-seizure of the samples of components of the genetic heritage and of the instruments used in the collection or processing or of the products obtained from information on traditional knowledge associated;

IV-seizure of the products component sample derivatives of genetic heritage or associated traditional knowledge;

V-suspension of the sale of the component derivative of component of the genetic heritage or traditional knowledge associate and its apprehension;

VI-embargo of the activity;

VII-partial or total interdiction of the establishment, activity or undertaking;

VIII-suspension of registration, patent, license or authorization;

IX-cancellation of registration, patent, license, or authorization;

X-loss or restriction of incentive and tax benefit granted by the government;

XI-loss or suspension of the online participation of funding in official credit establishment;

XII-intervention in the establishment;

XIII-prohibition of hiring with the Public Administration, by period of up to five years.

§ 2º The samples, the products and the instruments of which treat the incisos III, IV and V of § 1º of this article, will have their target set out by the Management Board.

§ 3º The sanctions set out in this article will be applied in the procedural form set out in the regulation of this Interim Measlant, without prejudice to civil or criminal penalties liable.

§ 4º The fine of which deals with the inciso II of § 1º of this article shall be arbitrated by the competent authority in accordance with the seriousness of the infraction and in the form of the regulation, and may vary from R$ 200.00 (two hundred reais) to R$ 100,000.00 (one hundred thousand reais), when it is physical person.

§ 5º If the infraction is committed by legal person, or with its contest, the fine will be R$ 10,000.00 (ten thousand reais) to R$ 50,000,000.00 (fifty million reais), arbitrated by the competent authority in accordance with the seriousness of the infraction, in the form of the regulation.

§ 6º In the event of a recidivism, the fine will be applied at double.

CHAPTER IX

OF THE FINAL PROVISIONS

Art. 31. The granting of industrial property law by the competent bodies, on process or product obtained from sample of component of the genetic heritage, shall be conditional on the observance of this Interim Measment, and the applicant shall inform the origin of the genetic material and associated traditional knowledge, when it is the case.

Art. 32. The competent federal bodies shall exercise the supervision, interception and seizure of component of the genetic or product component of the genetic or product obtained from information on associated traditional knowledge, accessed at odds with the provisions of this Provisional Measure, and may, still, such activities be decentralized, upon convennial, according to the regulation.

Art. 33. The share of profits and royalties owed to the Union, resulting from the economic exploitation of process or product developed from sample of component of the genetic heritage, as well as the value of the fines and indemniations of which it treats this Measure Provisional shall be earmarked for the National Environment Fund, set up by Law No. 7,797 of July 10, 1989, to the Naval Fund, created by Decree No. 20,923 of January 8, 1932 and to the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development, created by the Decree-Law No. 719 of July 31, 1969 and reinstated by Law No. 8,172 of January 18, 1991 in the form of the regulation.

Single paragraph. The resources of which it treats this article will be used exclusively in the conservation of biological diversity, including the recovery, creation and maintenance of depository banks, in the fostering of scientific research, in technological development associated with the genetic heritage and empowerment of human resources associated with the development of the activities related to the use and conservation of genetic heritage.

Art. 34. The person who utilizes or economically exploits components of the genetic heritage and associated traditional knowledge should appropriate their activities to the norms of this Interim Meassor and its regulation.

Art. 35. The Executive Power will regulate this Provisional Measure until December 30, 2001.

Art. 36. The provisions of this Provisional Measure do not apply to the matter governed by Law No. 8,974 of January 5, 1995.

Art. 37. They are convalidated the acts practiced on the basis of the Provisional Measure No. 2.126-12, of May 25, 2001.

Art. 38. This Interim Measure takes effect on the date of its publication.

Brasilia, June 22, 2001; 180º of Independence and 113º of the Republic.

MARCO ANTONIO DE OLIVEIRA MACIEL

Pedro Parente