| 
| 
The National Committee on Biosafety of the Philippines requests your comments/suggestions/recommendations on the Draft Manual on Biosafety-Decision Making Process under Executive Order No. 514. The Draft Manual covers all the biosafety guidelines issued by the Competent National Authorities (CNA's) for all stages of development of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) which covers not only plants and plant products but other GMOs.
This online Consultation is being conducted in accordance with Section 7 of E.O. 514 on Public Participation, which aims to generate comments from all stakeholders on the procedures for Risk assessment of GMOs from contained use to direct use as food/feed and processing as well as deregulation with the primary objective of streamlining and coming up with a seamless biosafety regulatory system
Interested parties are invited to submit written comments by 17 February 2012, with reference made to the line and page numbers. Should you fail to submit your comments on the proposed document on the set deadline, we would take it to mean that you have no further comments and that you find the said Manual acceptable for adoption.
In addition, a submission will not be considered if it is:
Please take a moment to download and review the Draft Manual on Biosafety-Decision Making Process under Executive Order No. 514
Thank you for your efforts.
| File | File size |
|---|---|
 Draft Manual on Biosafety Decision Making Process under EO 514.pdf | 6650 Kb |
Add new comment
|
| |
Created in January 2009 by virtue of the Executive Order 514: “Establishing the National Biosafety Framework Prescribing Its Implementation, Strengthening the National Committee on Biosafety of the Philippines, and for Other Purposes” dated 27 March 2006 to review application for contained used of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).
The DOST BC together with the Biosafety Committees of the Department of Health, Environment and Natural Resources and Agriculture were established in order to enhance the existing biosafety framework so as to better respond to the challenges presented by further advances in modern biotechnology. These challenges include the rapid expansion of the use of modern biotechnology not only for scientific research but also for commercial releases and the growing concern over biotechnology's potential impacts on the environment, on human health as well as on social and cultural well-being. Moreover, there is also the need for the country to continuously comply with the administrative requirements set by the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, since the Protocol was entered into force in the Philippines on 3 January 2007. | |
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST), as the premiere science and technology body in the country, shall take the lead in ensuring that the best available science is utilized and applied in adopting biosafety policies, measures and guidelines, and in making biosafety decisions. The DOST shall ensure that such policies, measures, guidelines and decisions are made on the basis of scientific information that is of the highest quality, multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed, and consistent with international standards as they evolve. In coordination with other concerned departments and agencies, and consistent with the requirements of transparency and public participation as provided in Sections 6 and 7 of the NBF, it shall exercise such jurisdiction and other powers that it has been conferred with under existing laws. It shall also take the lead in evaluating and monitoring regulated articles intended for contained use. |
