• Biosafety protocol

Biosafety protocol

The main purpose of this guide is to facilitate the understanding of the legal obligations of parties under the Cartagena Protocol on biosafety. The Cartagena Protocol on biosafety is a treaty committing the international community to ensure the safe transfer, handling and use of living modified organisms.

Among the many issues addressed by the guide are:

• the role of the precautionary principle in the Protocol, as well as its relationship with a number of Agreements of the World Trade Organization
• capacity building needs in the development of national biosafety protocols and current international efforts to assist in this regard
• issues surrounding selected breeding and genetic modifications of living organisms
• the Protocol and human health issues
• global and national regulation of biosafety
• a review of the other international instruments relevant to the Cartagena Protocol
• the negotiation history of the protocol, drawing on input from nay of the key players in the discussion
• the inclusion of an implementation tool kit, providing a useful checklist of provisions of the Protocol from an implementation perspective.

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