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Breakout Sessions
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Food and Agriculture
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Wednesday May 5, 2010
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10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
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McCormick Place, Chicago
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N426C
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The Cartagena Protocol of Biosafety, approved in February 2000, was implemented in September 2003. The Protocol applies to the transboundary movement, transit, handling and use of all living modified organisms (LMOs or GMOs) that may have adverse effects on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, taking also into account risks to human health. Some of the implementation rules are still under discussion between countries that are non-Parties and Parties of the Protocol and also among the latter. The session will inform and discuss relevant problems in the application of the Protocol that experience and negotiations have shown that can be solved, while problems such as liability and redress and risk assessment issues currently under discussion loom problematic to stakeholders.
Program: Late Breaking
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1. Experience of Parties and Non-Parties to the Protocol with its implementation in the first 10 years.
2. Opportunities for the adoption of GMOs within the Protocol
3. Dangers looming from possible adoption of new regulations limiting adopters and investors
Alexander Grobman, PhD - Chair
DR
Peru Biotec
J. Thomas Carrato, Esq
Assistant General Counsel, Global Regulatory Law & Stewardship
Monsanto Company
Teresa Babuscio
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COCERAL
Martin Lema
TECHNICAL COORDINATOR FOR THE ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF PO
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