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Ms. Luciana Pimenta Ambrozevicius,
Brazil
#11510
Welcome to the Online Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management!

My name is Luciana Ambrozevicius, I am an agronomist with a Ph.D. in Genetics and Plant Breeding currently working in the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock with a extensive experience on risk assessment and risk management including as a former member in the Biosafety National Technical Commission, a member of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology and a member of the AHTEG on RA and RM. 

It is a pleasure to moderate one of the opening discussions to collect views on elements to be included in the outline for the development of additional voluntary guidelines for the risk assessment of living modified organisms containing engineered gene drives.

When planning your intervention, please note that if you would like to respond to a post, we would like to encourage you to reply directly to that post. This will also facilitate the understanding of others. In addition, when posting information, kindly provide the URL, the DOI or use the attachment function.

As a kind reminder, discussions will close on 17:00 (5pm) EDT on Friday, 21 April 2023.

Your points of view and feedback will be appreciated. I hope that we can build a fruitful discussion that helps us to develop a useful foundation on this topic for the commissioning of the outline and discussions of the AHTEG.

I thank you for your participation in this forum, and I look forward to an interesting discussion.

Sincere regards,
Luciana Pimenta Ambrozevicius



Participants registered to the Forum must sign-in using a CBD account to post messages. Please answer the following questions in their corresponding thread below:

Question 1: What specific elements are important to include in the outline for these additional voluntary guidance materials?
Question 2: What types of engineered gene drives that the additional voluntary guidance materials should focus on?
Question 3: Share information on experience with the host organism (mosquito) that could be useful to considered in the development of the additional voluntary guidance materials.
Question 4:  What existing guidelines, guidance documents or experiences developing guidance materials could be important to consider for the development of these additional voluntary guidance materials?

Please note the attached report of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment from 2020:
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Mr Austein McLoughlin,
SCBD
#11595
Dear Participants,

Due to the increased activity this week, the Secretariat would like to extend the online forum until 17:00 EDT on Tuesday 25 April 2023 to give all participants additional time to respond to the recent posts and contribute to the discussions if they have not already done so.

Thank you for your activity and engagement on this online forum. We encourage you to continue sharing your views.

Kind regards,

The Secretariat
Mr Austein McLoughlin,
SCBD
#11679
--- Posted on behalf of Posted on behalf of Dr. Luciana Pimenta Ambrozevicius, Brazil ---

Dear forum participants,

The Open-Ended Online Forum for Risk Assessment and Risk Management is now closed.

I would like to thank you for your activity on this forum. Your important views, experiences, references and specific examples will surely guide the process moving forward the development of additional voluntary guidance materials to support case-by-case risk assessment of living modified organisms containing engineered gene drives in accordance with Annex III of the Cartagena Protocol.

I will work with the Secretariat to ensure all of your valuable inputs are represented in the report of these online discussions. Please refer to the calendar of activities for the upcoming activities related to this process, including the additional online discussions of this forum (https://bch.cbd.int/en/portals/risk-assessment/calendar).

Best regards,

Luciana.