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BIO | The Biosafety Protocol-An Overview (1460 words) |
 | The Biosafety Protocol (BSP) is an outgrowth of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a multilateral treaty for protecting biodiversity. |
| The Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity intended for the Biosafety Protocol to govern the transboundary movement of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) that may have an adverse effect on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. |
| As such, the Protocol's scope and AIA provisions must be limited to those LMOs and intended uses that may realistically have a significant adverse effect on biodiversity. |
| Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (980 words) |
| It is called the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to honor Colombia, which hosted the extraordinary Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Cartagena in 1999. |
| Although the United States is not a Party to the CBD and therefore cannot become a Party to the Biosafety Protocol, the U.S. participated in the negotiation of the text and the subsequent preparations for entry into force under the Intergovernmental Committee on the Cartagena Protocol. |
| The Protocol's AIA procedure, in effect, requires an exporter to seek consent from an importing country prior to the first shipment of a living modified organism (LMO) intended for introduction into the environment (e.g., seeds for planting, fish for release, and microorganisms for bioremediation). |
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