Report of the ad hoc technical expert group on risk assessment

Report of the ad hoc technical expert group on risk assessment

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Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment,  Convention on Biological Diversity,  2020.

The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety also decided to consider, at its tenth meeting, whether additional guidance materials on risk assessment were needed for (a) LMOs containing engineered gene drives and (b) living modified fish. It established an Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Risk Assessment with the terms of reference set out in annex II to the decision. The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol further decided to extend the Online Forum on Risk Assessment and Risk Management to assist the AHTEG and invited submissions of information relevant to the work of the online forum and the AHTEG from Parties, other Governments, and indigenous peoples and local communities. The AHTEG is to submit the outcomes of its work for consideration by the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice at its twenty-fourth meeting, prior to the tenth meeting of the Parties to the Protocol.