Biotech Updates

Biosafety Rules for Liability and Redress for Potential Damage of GMOs

May 23, 2008

Participants at the fourth meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, held in Bonn, Germany agreed on legal binding rules for liability and redress for potential damage caused by the movements of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The United Nations Environment Programme reports that a timetable and a framework for negotiating the rules and procedures were arrived at. These rules will be discussed in the next meeting of the parties to the protocol in October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan.

Read the full article at http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=26701&Cr=Biological&Cr1=Diversity