Federal Law Ministry in Pakistan Meets NBCs to Discuss GM Cotton Approval
February 19, 2014| |
The Federal Law Ministry in Pakistan has finally asked Climate Change Ministry to arrange a meeting of National Bio-Safety Committee for granting approval to the long-awaited 15 genetically modified organism (GMO) of cotton varieties for commercialization. On January 16, 2014, the Prime Minister formed a committee comprised of Secretaries from the Textile, Law and Climate Change divisions and directed them to hold a meeting within 10 days to resolve the issue. The committee met last week and the Law division gave a ruling asking for convening a meeting of NBC to grant approval for commercialisation of cotton seeds.
Official sources revealed that Pakistan being a signatory to the international Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety had to regulate GMO through establishing a Bio-safety system in the country. NBC and Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (PEPA) have the responsibility to evaluate, regulate, and monitor GMO for lab or field research and their commercial scale production or marketing in the country. Currently, the only transgenic crop commercially cultivated in Pakistan is cotton with eight Bt varieties and one cotton hybrid approved by Punjab Seed Council (PSC) in April 2010 and commercialisation certificate granted by NBC.
Read more at http://www.pakissan.com/english/news/newsDetail.php?newsid=25321 and http://pabic.com.pk/Federal%20Law%20Ministry%20called%20NBCs%20to%20talk%20for%20approval%20of%20long%20awaited%20GMO%20Cotton%20varieties.html.
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