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The Italian Biosafety Clearing-House

BIOSAFETY CLEARING-HOUSE (BCH) is an information-sharing platform in support to the decision-making process on national biosafety issues. The BCH aims to contribute to the realisation of the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 1992, which was ratified by the Italian Government with Law no. 124 on the 14 February 1994. Its role is to facilitate the exchange of scientific, technical, environmental and legal information on, and experience with, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for the benefit of contracting Parties of the Convention, persons involved in the risk assessment and risk management of GMOs, and the general public. The Italian BCH:

• is constructed within the international framework set up by the Convention on Biological Diversity;
• follows the indications of the Aarhus Convention;
• reflects the provisions of the European Community;
• responds to the requirements of the Italian Law on public consultation and access to information;
• supports the development of implementation legislation by the Italian Regional Authorities

The Italian BCH consists of different sections:

• Presentation, which provides general information on biosafety issues, including links with relevant Institutions and Organisations;
• Biosafety, with the general outlines of the principles for risk assessment and risk management, as well as the link to some informatic tools for biosafety;
• Legislation, with a collection of National, Communitary and International legislative texts relevant for biosafety;
• Public Information, which contains all the information on notifications, needed to ensure adequate public participation on the experimental and commercial release of GMOs (Articles 12 and 26, Legislative Decree 224/03);
• Public Consultation, a special section dedicated to those interested in attending the public consultation concerning the deliberate release of GMOs (Articles 12, paragraph 2, Legislative Decree 224/03);
• GMO documents and decisions, including tools for the information and the participation of the public in the area of the experimental and commercial release of LMOs;
• Clearing House, which performs the information tasks required by the Cartagena Protocol and under the competence of EU Member States.

The Italian decision-making platform on Biosafety

The Italian BCH has been implemented by the Ministry for the Environment and Territory and Sea in partnership with the Biosafety Unit of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)

 

NEWS

ICGEB Biosafety Workshops: “Strategic Approaches in the Evaluation of the Science Underpinning GMO Regulatory Decision-making”. Trieste 1-5 July, 2013

Requests for information and applications directly to:
Wendy Craig e Monica Recovita (ICGEB Biosafety Unit, Trieste)
Padriciano 99
I-34149 Trieste, Italia
Tel: +39-040-3757333
Fax: +39-040-226555
E-mail: courses@icgeb.org
(1 April, 2013)

VI MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES SERVING AS THE MEETING OF THE PARTIES (COP-MOP) TO THE CARTAGENA PROTOCOL ON BIOSAFETY
1 - 5 October 2012, Hyderabad, India
Documents available at http://bch.cbd.int/protocol/meetings/documents.shtml?eventid=4715

Final report

Press release: The UN meeting on biosafety ends with an agreement to advance work on the issue of socioeconomic considerations regarding living modified organisms
(8 October, 2012)

VOLUME SEVEN OF "COLLECTION OF BIOSAFETY REVIEWS"
In the seventh volume of the ”Collection of Biosafety Reviews” there are three articles entitled:
Generation of Genetically Modified Animals
Advances in the Development of Genetically Modified Animals
Food Safety Assessment of Products from Genetically Modified Animals
Authors: Louis-Marie Houdebine, Martin Alfredo Lema, Moisés Burachik
(27 November, 2012) Back to top

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