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Biosafety Law, Regulation, Guidelines and Agreements
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last updated: 06 Oct 2011
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Law on Ratification of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity (Official Gazette No. 7/2002)
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Law
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In accordance with the precautionary approach contained in Principle no. 15 of the Declaration on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the objective of this Protocol is to contribute to ensuring an adequate level of protection in the field of safe transfer, handling and use of living modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology and that could have a negative effect on the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, taking also into account risks to human health and especially putting emphasis on transboundary movement.
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28 Jun 2002
Croatian Parliament at its session held 24 May 2002 decided to proclaim the Law on Ratification of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity based on Article 88 of the Croatian Constitution.
Link to the document is also availabe at the following link: http://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/medunarodni/2002_06_7_85.html and it contains English and Croatia text.
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Link to the document is also availabe at the following link: http://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/medunarodni/2002_06_7_85.html and it contains English and Croatia text.
The Ministry of Culture, Nature Protection Directorate is a competent national authority responsible for the implementation of provisions under the Convention on Biological Diversity and its supplementary Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
