3rd workshop ("Croatian Biosafety-Related Legislation")

The Third Workshop entitled "Croatian Biosafety-Related Legislation", concerning legislation and inspection was held on 13-14 May 2004 in Zagreb. Its aim was to introduce conferees (staff from ministries and working groups to draw up by-laws and redefine the inspection) to the problems faced by EU professionals and search for the best solution in conjunction with lecturers from the EU, Austria, Netherlands and Slovenia. The Workshop heard presentations on the topics of Croatian, Slovenian, Austrian and EU legislation. There was also a workshop dealing with examples of processing the applications for contained use of GMO organisms.

• On the first day, comparisons were looked at of Croatian, Slovenian, Austrian and EU legislation regarding genetically modified organisms. These comparisons were presented by experts, (M.Sc. Krunoslav Capak, MD, Croatian National Institute of Public Health; M.Sc. Darja Stanič–Racman, National Institute of Biology, Slovenia; Dr. Dietmar Vybiral, Federal Ministry of Health & Women, AU). Deliberate release into the environment was presented from the viewpoint of inspectors and on its progress in the Netherlands (Piet de Wildt, VROM-Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning, and the Environment, Environment inspectorate, NL).
• On the second day, Dietmar Vybiral and Piet de Wildt presented a fictional and real case study of contained use, and then those cases were addressed also from the viewpoint of inspectors.

Invited were 62 institutions (Ministries, Industry, State laboratories, Research institutes and NGO-s) or 175 representatives. From the people invited, 47% had attended the workshop.