Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety - Correspondence with Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Submission of the Government of Australia

Responding to request for information on national, regional and international measures and agreements in the field of liability and redress for damage resulting from transboundary movements of LMOs

(para 1, recommendation 3/1)

Australia was one of a small number of countries which submitted information on its national measures dealing with liability and genetically modified organisms when requested in 2001 – and that information continues to be relevant. 

Australia requests that submission be included in any collation of information on national measures to be put to the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties.