National Biotechnology Authority Act (No. 3 of 2006). Country/Territory Zimbabwe Document type Legislation Date 2006 Source FAO, FAOLEX Long titleAn Act to establish the National Biotechnology Authority whose function shall be to support and manage biotechnology research, development and application; to provide for the constitution of a board of the Authority; to provide for the establishment of the National Biotechnology Fund for the development of the products of biotechnology; to provide for the fixing of standards of quality and other matters relating to products of biotechnology produced in Zimbabwe; and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing. Subject Livestock, Cultivated plants Keyword Animal reproduction Biosafety Biosecurity Basic legislation Biotechnology Plant production Planting material/seeds Institution Special fund Geographical area Africa, Eastern Africa, Landlocked Developing Nations Abstract This Act establishes the National Biotechnology Authority and the Biotechnology Fund and provides for the control of biotechnology in Zimbabwe. The Act concerns: (a) research into and the development, importation, exportation and use of biotechnological processes; (b) the import, export, contained use, release or placing on the market of any product of biotechnology that is likely to have adverse effect on human health or safety or the environment, (c) any activity involving biological and molec Full text English Website www.kubatana.net