Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol Receives 51 Signatories
March 16, 2012| |
The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety has closed for signatures with 51 signatories. For 2012, a total of 14 countries have signed the supplementary protocol including Brazil, United Kingdom of Great Britain, and Japan. It will be implemented after 40 countries have ratified it. To date, Latvia and Czech Republic are the countries that have ratified the supplementary protocol.
The supplementary protocol was formed in March 7, 2011 to contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, and at the same time considering account risks to human health, by providing international rules and procedures in the field of liability and redress relating to living modified organisms.
Read the media release at http://www.cbd.int/doc/press/2012/pr-2012-03-08-nklr-en.pdf.
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