Draft protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity concerning safety in biotechnology

In July 1996, the African delegates in the biosafety negotiations at Aarhus, Denmark, asked the Ethiopian delegation to prepare a draft of a Protocol for Safety in Biotechnology on their behalf. The result is the present draft. The drafting of this Protocol and the holding of the meetings that reviewed it were made possible through funding raised by the Third World Network (TWN). The head office of TWN is in Penang, Malaysia, but as its name suggests it has individual and institutional members in various developing countries. The Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD) which is based in Addis Ababa, is a member of TWN. The funds from TWN were directed through it. ISD also provided logistical support to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) to develop this Protocol. The drafting committee of this Protocol consis