The Nagoya Protocol (Compliance) Regulations 2015

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14.—(1) The person on whom a stop notice is served may appeal against the decision to serve it.

(2) The grounds for the appeal are—

(a)that the decision was based on an error of fact;

(b)that the decision was wrong in law;

(c)that the decision was unreasonable;

(d)that any step specified in the notice is unreasonable;

(e)that the person has not failed to comply and would not have failed to comply had the stop notice not been served;

(f)that the person is not likely to make available on the market a product developed by means of the utilisation of genetic resources or traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources for which the obligations under the EU Regulation have not been met;

(g)that the person would not, by reason of any defence, have been liable to be convicted of the offence had the stop notice not been served;

(h)that the decision was wrong for any other reason.