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National Bio-safety Advisory Committee Establishment Council of Ministers Regulation No. 411/2017.

Country/Territory
Ethiopia
Document type
Regulation
Date
2017
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
23rd Year No.83 ADDIS ABABA,19 th September 2017.
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Institution Biosafety Genetically modified organism (GMO) Biotechnology Policy/planning Risk assessment/management Monitoring Data collection/reporting
Geographical area
Africa, Eastern Africa, Landlocked Developing Nations, Least Developed Countries, Sahel
Abstract

The National Bio-safety Advisory Committee (in this Regulation to be referred as the “Committee”) is hereby established. The Committee is accountable to the Minister and the objective of the Committee shall be to advise the Government on issues related to bio-safety, these include: transactions of genetically modified organisms; the issues of national policies and laws of bio-safety; identifying effective methods to create public awareness regarding transactions of genetically modified organisms; on any other matters related to bio-safety. The Regulation establishes as well the the Secretariat of the National Bio-safety Advisory Committee under the Ministry with the functions: organize and submit any bio-safety requests made to the committee; submit the recommendation of the Committee to the Minister; prepare and submit performance report of the Committee to the Minister.

Full text
English/Amharic
Website
www.epa.gov.et