Risk assessment and risk management of specific receiving environments

Dear Forum Participant,

Welcome to the Discussion Group on “Risk assessment and risk management of specific receiving environments”.

**The discussions within this group will take place from 1 to 14 December 2008.**

To assist in the discussions, the following is a non-exhaustive list of suggested points for discussion:

1. Special considerations that should be taken into account when assessing the safety of LMOs to be introduced into specific environments, such as centres of origin or diversity, fragile ecosystems, small islands, etc.

2. How to develop baseline data?

3. Other considerations regarding such specific receiving environments, including emergency measures, that should be taken into account when preparing risk assessment reports.

Also, an introduction to the topic, as well as a non-exhaustive list of suggested reading materials have been made available.

A short tutorial to assist the participants in posting messages and navigating through the Forum is available at http://bch.cbd.int/forum/tutorial_discgroup.pdf.

The CBD Secretariat thanks you for your active participation. Happy discussions!

The Biosafety Division

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