This Regulation applies to genetic resources over which States exercise sovereign rights and to traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources that are accessed after the entry into force of the Nagoya Protocol for the Union. It also applies to the benefits arising from the utilisation of such genetic resources and traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources.

This Regulation does not apply to genetic resources for which access and benefit-sharing is governed by specialised international instruments that are consistent with, and do not run counter to the objectives of the Convention and the Nagoya Protocol.

This Regulation is without prejudice to Member States’ rules on access to genetic resources over which they exercise sovereign rights within the scope of Article 15 of the Convention, and to Member States’ provisions on Article 8(j) of the Convention concerning traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources.

This Regulation applies to genetic resources and traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources to which access and benefit-sharing legislation or regulatory requirements of a Party to the Nagoya Protocol are applicable.

Nothing in this Regulation shall oblige a Member State to supply information the disclosure of which it considers contrary to the essential interests of its security.