This Law shall apply to all legally responsible persons using genetically modified organisms in the Republic of Albania.
This Law regulates management of genetically modified organisms and determines measures for preventing and reducing possible adverse environmental effects, specially in relation to preserving biological diversity, and on human and animal health, which could occur during contained use of GMOs, the deliberate release of GMOs into the environment or placing on the market GMOs or products containing GMOs or consisting of them or their combinations. This act also regulates the import and export of GMOs and products in the Republic of Albania.

The provisions of this Law shall not apply to the following methods of modifying the genetic material:

a) mutagenesis;
b) cell or protoplast fusion of cells of prokaryotic species that exchange genetic material by known physiological processes;
c) cell or protoplast fusion of cells of eukaryotic species, including the production of hybridomas and plant cell fusion; and
d) self-cloning consisting of the removal of nucleic acid sequences from a cell of an organism which may or may not be followed by reinsertion of all or part of that nucleic acid (or a synthetic equivalent) with or without prior enzymic or mechanical steps, into cells of the same species or into cells of phylogenetically closely related species which can exchange genetic material by natural physiological processes where the resulting organism is unlikely to cause disease to humans, animals or plants.