# The Nagoya Protocol (Compliance) Regulations 2015, Paragraph 14: Appeals


(1) The person on whom a stop notice is served may appeal against the decision to serve it.
(2) The grounds for the appeal are—
(a) that the decision was based on an error of fact;
(b) that the decision was wrong in law;
(c) that the decision was unreasonable;
(d) that any step specified in the notice is unreasonable;
(e) that the person has not failed to comply and would not have failed to comply had the stop notice not been served;
(f) that the person is not likely to make available on the market a product developed by means of the utilisation of genetic resources or traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources for which the obligations under the EU Regulation have not been met;
(g) that the person would not, by reason of any defence, have been liable to be convicted of the offence had the stop notice not been served;
(h) that the decision was wrong for any other reason.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/821/schedule/paragraph/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/nagoya-protocol-compliance-regulations-2015/schedule/paragraph-14
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