"Act" means the National Environment Act; "Authority" means the National Environment Management Authority established by section 4 of the Act; "benefit sharing" or "sharing of benefits" means the sharing of benefits that accrue from the utilisation of genetic resources and includes technology, technology transfer, innovations, practices, results of research, capacity building, community knowledge, awareness and education; "biological resources" includes genetic resources, organisms or parts of organisms, populations or other biotic component of ecosystems with actual or potential value for humanity; 9. "ecosystem" means a dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities and their non-living environment interacting as a functional unit; and "ex situ conditions" means the conditions in which genetic resources are found outside their natural habitats; "CITES Management Authority" means the CITES Management Authority established under the Uganda Wildlife Act; "genetic material" means any material of plant, animal, microbial or other origin containing functional units of heredity; "collector" means a person, or agent of that person, obtaining or intending to obtain access t(1 genetic resources, their derivative products, or intangible components occurring or originating from Uganda; "genetic resources" means genetic material of actual or potential use or value, and includes their derivative products and intangible components; "bio-prospecting" means the exploration collection of genetic resources; ~OO. "derivative product" means an unimproved or unmodified biologically active chemical compound associated with targeted biological or genetic material formed by the metabolic processes of the organism, modified and used in a technological application, and includes molecules, combinations or mixtures of natural molecules including raw extracts of living or dead organisms and soil matter, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or ribonucleic acid (RNA) or chemical compounds, modified, created or synthesised from genetic material originally obtained in accordance with these Regulations; "competent authority" means the Uganda National . Council for Science and Technology established under the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology Act designated to be the competent authority under regUlation 5; 382 "in-situ conditions" means the conditions in which genetic resources are found in their ecosystems and natural habitats and, in the case of domesticated or cultivated species, in the cultural contexts in which their specific properties have been developed; 383