This guideline has been developed for planning and conducting an environmental risk assessment in support of an open release of a GE plant in Bangladesh. It provides a practical elaboration to the risk assessment framework included in the Biosafety Guidelines of Bangladesh by detailing the types of information that will be informative for environmental risk assessment of GE plants in Bangladesh. Where appropriate, these guidelines will refer to the ERA framework and the principles of ERA that are contained in the Biosafety Guidelines of Bangladesh. 
These guidelines are intended to apply to both imported and domestically developed GE plants that are intended for cultivation or Propagable forms of GE plant material that may be imported for direct use in food, feed, or processing, which could become established and persist without human intervention due to unintentional release into the environment
These guidelines are not intended to apply to the importation of non-propagable products of GE plants for direct use in food, feed, or processing (e.g., flour, starch, crushed meal, oil derived from a GE plant), The environmental introduction of non-plant genetically engineered organisms (e.g., recombinant micro-organisms) and experimental GE plants in confined field trials.