Participants of the Open-ended Group and the AHTEG are invited to make proposals to further improve the current version of the Guidance for Risk Assessment of LMOs.

Following a request by the AHTEG Chair and in view of the advanced stage of the document, only suggestions made directly to the text of the Guidance (revised on 4 July 2011) and marked as "track changes" will be taken into account during further revision of the Guidance.

To do so, those using MS Word please download the file containing the Guidance (revised on 4 July 2011), select "track changes" mode under the Review tab and make your suggestions for changes directly to the text. You may use the "Add comment" function to explain the rationale behind your suggested changes when needed. Those who are using other programs, please use similar tools for tracking the changes.

Once you have finished making your suggestions for changing the text, please post a message in this discussion with your file in the attachment.

This discussion will be open from 18 July to 6 August 2011 (1:00am GMT).

In this discussion group, participants to the Open-ended Group and AHTEG are invited to provide comments on the first draft of the guidance on "Post-release Monitoring and Long-term Effects of LMOs Released into the Environment".

The comments may focus, for instance on:

1. whether all issues relevant to this topic have been included in this draft and, if not, which ones should be added.
   
2. suggestions for improvements to the current text and/or structure;
3. suggestions for background documents to be included (please provide the full reference and indicate to which section(s) of the guidance the background material is relevant)

This discussion will be take place from 5 to 17 September 2011 (1:00am GMT).

In this discussion group, participants to the Open-ended Group and AHTEG are invited to provide comments on the first draft of the guidance on "Risk Assessment of Living Modified Trees".

The comments may focus, for instance on:

1. whether all issues relevant to this topic have been included in this draft and, if not, which ones should be added.
   
2. suggestions for improvements to the current text and/or structure;
3. suggestions for background documents to be included (please provide the full reference and indicate to which section(s) of the guidance the background material is relevant)

This discussion will be take place from 5 to 17 September 2011 (1:00am GMT).