CropLife International and the Global Industry Coalition (GIC) have come out with a ‘guide’ to aid Governments keen to implement the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol (SP) on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
“The plant science industry has developed this Implementation Guide to assist countries that do not have existing mechanisms at the domestic level to address suspected damage to biodiversity from living modified organisms (LMOs) in the unlikely event such damage occurs,” Sarah Lukie, Executive Director of The Compact and Executive Secretary of the Global Industry Coalition, said here in a statement.
The guide is being released to mark the sixth meeting COP-MOP 6 (Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol), which began here.
“It is designed to help Governments in developing a system that conformed to the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur SP,” she said.
It provides definitions of terms and provides examples of text which could be considered by a Government to amend or create domestic law.
“We look forward to working with countries that intend to ratify and implement the SP and assisting them in their national efforts through use of this publication,” she said.