Biotech Updates

Lebanon to Become 165th Party to CPB

February 27, 2013

Lebanon submitted its instrument of accession to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) to the Convention on Biological Diversity on February 6, 2013 and will be the 165th Party to the Protocol effective on May 7, 2013.

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is a legally binding agreement governing the transboundary movement of living modified organisms (LMOs). The Protocol aims to protect biodiversity from potential risks of LMOs by providing an international regulatory framework for ensuring their safe transfer, handing, and use. The Protocol was implemented on September 11, 2003.

Read the media release at http://www.cbd.int/doc/press/2013/pr-2013-02-13-lebanon-en.pdf.