Federal Negarit Gazeta 13th Year No. 13 ADDIS ABABA-27th February, 2006 Page 3358 9. 10. Art. 9 Right to share benefit 1/ Local communities shall have the right to share from the benefit arising out of the utilization of their community knowledge; 2/ Local communities shall have the right to obtain 50% of the benefit shared by the state in the form of money from the benefits derived out of the utilization of their genetic resources in accordance with Article 18 (1) of this proclamation; 3/ The money obtained pursuant to Sub-Article (1) and (2) of this Article shall be put to the common advantage of the concerned local communities; 4/ The procedure in accordance to which such monetary shall be used for the common advantage of local communities shall be specified by regulation to be issued under this proclamation. Protection of Community Rights 1/ The rights of local communities over their genetic resources and community knowledge shall be protected as they are enshrined in the customary practices and norms of the concerned communities. 2/ An item of community knowledge shall be identified, interpreted and ascertained in accordance with the customary practices and Norma of the concerned local community. 3/ The non-registration of any community knowledge shall not render it unprotected by community rights. 4/ The publication or oral description of a given genetic resource or a community knowledge, or the presence of the genetic resources in gene bank or any other conservation center or that it is in use shall not affect its protection as community rights.