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Monopolies.
(1) Whoever, apart from the cases especially specified above or petty infringements punishable under the Code of Petty Offences (Art. 784790), intentionally violates the provisions concerning:
(a) the importation, exportation, storage or transport of objects, products or materials subject to prohibition, license, control or duties; or
(b) the exploitation of natural resources of the country, whether of the soil, of the sub-soil or their products, of electric power, water, forests, minerals, game or wild animals; or
(c) the exploitation of wild animals or their products, or the hunting or killing of such animals; or
(d) the settlement or execution of other activities in restricted forests, in parks or in reserved areas; or
(e) a monopoly whether granted by way of concession or controlled by the State; or
(f) the organization of State banks or State undertakings, or the granting of concessions, or the operation and supervision of banks or undertakings, whether commercial or industrial or factories establishments of any kind, is punishable, where the crime does not come under a specific provision prescribing a more severe penalty, with simple imprisonment or fine, in addition to the forfeiture of the subject matter of the crime and the withdrawal of any license and work certificate, and the suspension or closing down of any business.
(2) Whoever violates laws issued regarding the collection, transportation, transference, exportation, importation or exploitation of genetic resources, is punishable, according to the circumstances of the case, with simple imprisonment for not less than one year, or with rigorous imprisonment not exceeding ten years and fine from ten thousand to thirty thousand Birr.
(3) Whoever, contrary to law, hunts or kills endemic animals; or possesses, collects, transports, transfers or exports endemic animals or plants or their products, Is punishable, according to the circumstances of the case, with simple imprisonment for not less than one year, or with rigorous imprisonment not exceeding twelve years and fine from ten thousand to one hundred thousand Birr.
(4) Where one of the acts in this Article is committed negligently, the punishment shall be fine not exceeding five thousand Birr, or, according to the circumstances and gravity of the case, simple imprisonment not exceeding six months.
