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Black Sea Biotechnology Association launches redesigned and updated website

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Kiev, Ukraine
February 26, 2009

Source: Alexander Golikov, Black Sea Biotechnology Association (BSBA)

The Black Sea Biotechnology Association web site is now available at www.bsba.ag and will serve as an information-sharing and awareness-raising tool for the biotech in the region.

The site is available in English, Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian, Turkish and Ukrainian.
 

It provides the most updated and validated information on GMO related regulations and approval in the region as well as elaboration on risk assessment of GM crops.

The Black Sea Biotechnology Association was established in June 2004 as international public non-profit organization with the aims to:

  • create within the Black Sea region, a network of countries with historically similar agricultural needs, priorities and often practices, science based regulations that not only protect the public health and the regional environment, but also stimulate economic development, international trade, modern agricultural practices, modern food and feed production industry, east/west collaborations and the advancement of regional varieties;
  • increase the region's contribution to and participation in the global debate regarding agricultural biotechnology;
  • avoid regulatory and trade practices for Ag Biotech that lead to unnecessary and/or unjustified barriers that encumber commerce and ultimately disadvantage the region;
  • build a system of mutual recognition of regulatory and safety data for agricultural products improved through biotechnology;
  • build regional human and organizational (including information sharing) capacity to understand and responsibly employ Ag biotechnology;
  • contribute to public perception of biotechnology by setting facts against factoids;
  • launch the regional Biotechnology Information Center which will work in cooperation with other information networks and serve in real time mode as the regional Ag-Biotech clearing house;
  • launch the annual Black Sea Region Biotech Forum. At the Forum, regulatory, economic development and trade related issues of Ag biotechnology will be discussed and solutions proposed for the countries surrounding the Black Sea region in areas of technology, seed and commodities;
  • serve as local consultancy node on safety and regulatory matters;
  • BSBA has members presenting Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine, Belgium, China, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK, and USA, and is governed by the Board of Directors in consultations with the Board of Trustees.

The organization is open for new members who share its views and wish to contribute to reaching the goals

 

 

 

 

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