Biosafety generally refers to the potential threat to the ecological environment and human health caused by the development and application of modern biotechnology, and a series of effective prevention and control measures are taken against it. Based on the possible adverse effects of the development of biotechnology, people put forward the concept of biosafety.
Development background
In the mid-1980s, 1985, UNEP, WHO, UNIDO and FAO jointly formed an informal ad hoc working group on biosafety, and began to pay attention to biosafety issues. 1992 After the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development was held, the international community began to attach importance to biosafety legislation.
The two programmatic documents signed at this meeting, 2 1 Agenda and the Convention on Biological Diversity, specifically mentioned the safety of biotechnology. Since 1994, the United Nations Environment Programme and the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity have organized 10 rounds of working meetings and intergovernmental negotiations to prepare for the formulation of a comprehensive biosafety protocol.
1February 1999 and 65438+20001October held the extraordinary meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and its resumed meeting respectively. 1more than 30 countries sent delegations to discuss related issues, among which EU 15 was the most active. All environment ministers attended the meeting, and the US Deputy Secretary of State also attended the meeting.