UPDATE ON ON-GOING BIOSAFETY CAPACITY-BUILDING INITIATIVES: A COMPILATION OF SUBMISSIONS MADE BY PARTIES, OTHER GOVERNMENTS AND RELEVANT ORGANIZATIONS

Based on proposed nominations prepared by the CNAs, the Council made a selection and appointed the members of the Committee for the Contained Use of GMOs consisting of 11 scientists and 9 members of the Committee for the Release of GMOs into the environment. [...] The goal of this workshop was to introduce the national regulators, decision makers and the members of the biosafety scientific-advisory bodies (the Council for GMOs, the Committee for Release of GMOs into the environment and the Committee for contained use) to the procedure and steps in handling and reviewing the notifications and dossiers in order to take optimal decisions related to the introdu. [...] 1946/2003 of the European Parliament and the Council of 15 July 2003 on /… UNEP/CBD/BS/COP-MOP/5/INF/8 Page 14 transboundary movements of GMOs; Overview of existing/approved and authorized GMOs in the EU and useful resources of references; Presentation of the Common Format for the risk assessment under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety; Presentation of the Case Study (Bt corn MON810); Procedure. [...] The objective of this workshop is to introduce regulators and members of the biosafety scientific- advisory bodies: the Council for GMOs, the Committee for Release of GMOs into the environment and the Committee for Contained Use to the legal and scientific basis and European guidance, standards and recommendations for the methodology of the Post-Market Environmental Plan (PMEM) at the EU level. [...] Despite the efforts and the compromise of the government, the budget is not enough for the sustainability of most of the activities, mainly, the activities in which financial resources are the core component, this is the case of the technical infrastructure.