LAW FRAMEWORK COMPILATION ON GMOS IN AGRICULTURAL SECTOR: DEFINITIONS ADOPTED AND LABELING ISSUES

摘要

The monitoring of the legal framework related to GMO utilization in vitivinicultural sector began in 2008 with the aim of facilitating the OIV's work in the field of definitions related to modern biotechnology techniques. This report focuses on three topics: an inventory of the regulations in force in different countries, adopted definitions of various terms related to modern biotechnology techniques and obtained products, and, finally, a list of rules related to the labeling of products containing GMOs or which consist of GMOs. The present report is the update of the study published by the OIV in 2010. The update of the regulatory note consists in extending it to new countries as well as updating the information already contained in the document. New countries have been included according to two criteria: the importance of the country for the OIV (hence, the OIV Secretariat has started work on Indian and Chinese legislation) and recent regulatory changes (the Secretariat worked on the basis of recent notifications given bv countries to the WTO)