International minutes over biological security, after the place of the hearing Cartagena in Colombia briefly Cartagena minutes mentioned, are on 11 September 2003 into force stepped international agreement, that according to international law binding transnational transport, the handling and handling genetically changed organisms regulate for the first time. A goal is it above all to put the member states into the position to fall independently decisions over the permission of imported goods of such organisms whereby the protection of the biological variety and the human health in the foreground stand. In particular it is to be prevented that genetically changed organisms without knowledge and permission of national places are transnational acted. Concerned thereby above all corn and Soja are. With it in an international treaty system the precaution principle in such a way specified is used for the first time, which means in accordance with the Rio declaration of 1992 that the lack of complete scientific certainty may not be a reason to postpone cost-effective measures for the avoidance of environmental degradation.

Ratification process

The Aushandlung of a protocol on biological security was already decided 1995 by that at that time 170 member states of the UN-convention over biological variety. An appropriate conference of the Contracting States was begun 1999 in the Colombian Cartagena and continued 2000 in At present (2006) 124 states ratified minutes, in addition almost all European Union states belong beside Germany. Was agreed upon likewise the holding of regular subsequent conferences, which are concerned with the conversion of minutes. First of these conferences took place 2004 in Kuala Lumpur, where the establishment of a Clearingstelle for biological security as well as questions was decided to the liability law and for the documentation of transnational supplies in question of coming organisms. The Clearingstelle is to receive thereby entrance to all national and transnational genetically relevant data.

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