Enforcement Decree of the Act on Access to and Utilization of Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing.

The purpose of this Decree is to prescribe matters delegated by the Act on Access to and Utilization of Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing and matters necessary for the enforcement thereof.
Regarding to the duties of the competent national authorities, “Matters prescribed by Presidential Decree" in Article 8 (2) 4 of the Act shall mean the following: 1. Investigating and managing the current status of utilizing domestic genetic resource(s); 2. Investigating and managing the establishment of the agreement on sharing benefits from domestic genetic resource(s) pursuant to Article 11 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as "mutually agreed terms") and the implementation status thereof. To electronically process and efficiently manage reporting on access to domestic genetic resource(s) under Article 9 and procedural compliance reporting on access to foreign genetic resource(s) under Article 15, the Minister of the Environment may establish and operate an integrated reporting system following consultation with the heads of the Competent National Authority and the National Checkpoint.