Welcome to Croatian web pages about GMO issues!

These pages have been established under UNEP/GEF Project entitled "Development of the National Biosafety Framework for Republic of Croatia".

The main objective of this National Project is the preparation of a National Biosafety Framework in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
The main elements of this framework would be establishing a regulatory, an administrative, a decision making system that includes risk assessment and management and mechanisms for public participation and information.

The objective of the Cartagena Protocol is to contribute to ensuring an adequate level of protection in the field of the safe transfer, handling and use of living modified organisms (LMO) resulting from modern biotechnology that may have adverse effects on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, taking also into account risks to human health, and specifically focusing to transboundary movements.

The Project web pages are designed with the purpose of offering Project information to the public on a worldwide scale as well as all other topical information on the genetically modified organisms (GMO) problem area, such as its legislation or domestic and foreign news about GMOs. Since the web page also has an educational role, it includes a glossary with definitions from genetics and biotechnology, with an option to pose questions.

This Web Site has listed relevant biosafety legislations, findings of National surveys, presentations and reports from all organised workshops, publications and useful links to web pages on other domestic and foreign projects and to institutions concerned with similar problem areas.

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