Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism

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The national Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism has been identified as the competent authority to issue bioprospecting permits, while export permits (i.e. for the export of material for research other than bioprospecting) will be issued by the provincial authorities in the province in which the biological resources are collected. 

All the funds generated by bioprospecting are required to be deposited in a National Bioprospecting Trust Fund administered by the Director General of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. The funds accruing to each stakeholder will be paid out from the National Trust Fund. 

The implementation plan prepared by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism proposed that an interim expert group will be appointed by the Minister of the National Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism to assess project proposals and bioprospecting applications and review requests for access. It is too early to make any comment on whether the review process is working because the procedures are not yet fully operational. There is no indication in the regulations as to how long the assessment of the application may take, especially as the applicant may be required to conduct a risk assessment. 

I thank Dr Gordon Cragg of the Natural Products Branch at the NCI for helpful discussions and Professor Douglas Rivett and Dr Rob Keyzers for helpful editorial comments. Financial support from the South African National Research Foundation and the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism is gratefully acknowledged. 

South Africa Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism... 

The impact of the epidemic was colossal. The overall economic costs in the food and farming sectors of the U.K. economy totaled an estimated 5 billion, roughly 10 billion [9]. This figure compares with an annual gross output of the entire U.K. agricultural sector of 25 billion [10]. The U.K. economy suffered other economic costs associated with the outbreak of FMD. Outside the agricultural sector costs, the United Kingdom endured additional losses to the leisure and tourism sector of the economy. The U.K. Department of Environmental Food and Rural Affairs estimated that the leisure and tourism sector of the economy lost 5-6 billion pounds as a result of the outbreak of FMD in 2001 [11]. 

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