Effects Of The Cartagena Protocol On Biosafety

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is an international agreement which gives the safe handling, transport and safe use of living modified organisms (LMOs) with the help of modern biotechnology that have effects on biological diversity it also takes an account risks to human health. It was eastablished on 29 January 2000 and entered into force on 15 september 2003.
The Biosafety Protocol clears that products from new technologies must be totally based on the precautionary principle and allow for the developing nations to balance the public health. For example the country should banned the imports of genetically modified organism if they don’t have scientific evidence that product is not safe for the public health.
LIVING MODIFIED ORGANISMS
'Modern biotechnology' is the protocol application of in vitro nucleic acid techniques, or fusion of cells of taxonomic plant family. 'Living modified organism (LMO) Products' are defined as processed material that obtained with living modified organism or can be find out by combinations of replicable genetic material obtained by the use of modern biotechnology.Living modified organism can also be use as food or feed, or for food processing Overall the term 'living modified organisms' is same as to genetically modified living organism – the Protocol did not make any difference between these terms and the did not use the term 'genetically modified organism.
APPLICATION
The Protocol applied to the transboundary movement ,safe handling and use of all living modified organisms that may have adverse effects on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and it takes also a risks to human health .
LIVING MODIFIED ORGANISMS
A developing country Party or a Party have an economy in transition, in the absence of a domestic regulatory framework they declares through the Biosafety Clearing-House that its decisions on the first import of LMOs-FFP will be taken in accordance with risk assessment .
The Protocol provides for practical requirements that seems to contribute to the safe movement of LMOs. Parties are required to take precautions for the safe handling, packaging and transportation of LMOs that is related with the transboundary movement. The Protocol point out requirements on identification by setting out which information must be provided in documentation together with transboundary shipments of LMOs. It also leaves a place for the future development of standards for handling, packaging, transport and identification of LMOs by the meeting with Parties to the