Access to biological resources and knowledge
- Section 3 access requires prior NBA approval for specified persons
- Section 7 commercial access begins with prior state-board intimation
- Biodiversity-access exemptions depend on actor and purpose
- Cultivated medicinal-plant exemptions require origin evidence
- Section 3 persons need NBA approval before grant of covered IPR
- Section 7 IPR registration differs from commercialisation approval
- Research-result transfers have their own biodiversity controls
- NBA can oppose specified overseas intellectual-property grants