Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA), UNEP, Biosafety Project, Egypt

General biosafety
Administrative framework
Compliance
Transboundary movement (import/export)
Transit and contained use
Biotechnology, trade and the environment
Capacity building and financial resources
Environmental, food and feed safety
Handling, transport, packaging and identification
Human health
Information exchange and data management (including the Biosafety Clearing-House)
Intentional introduction into the environment (AIA)
Legislative and regulatory framework
Liability and redress
National biosafety frameworks
Public awareness, education and participation
Research and training in biosafety
Risk assessment and risk management
Socio-economic considerations

Biosafety project, under the umbrella of EEAA and UNEP aims at:
- assist Egypt to have a fully functional and responsive regulatory regime in line with CP and national needs.
- assist Egypt to have a functional national system for handling requests, performing risk assessment, decision-making, performing administrative tasks, handling, storing and exchanging information in line with the BCH requirements.
- assist Egypt to have a functional national system for "follow-up", namely monitoring of environmental effects and enforcement.
- assist Egypt to have a functional national system for public awareness, education, participation and access to information.

The following main topics were delivered at the capacity building training:
- CBD convention, Cartagena Protocol & Nagoya Kuala Lumpur supplementary protocol
(Objectives, features and means of implementation)
- What is biosafety mainstreaming?
- Why is biosafety mainstreaming important?
- How can biosafety be mainstreamed into national legislation, policies and institutional frameworks?
- Linkage between Biosafety, Aichi targets and NBSAP.
- Integration of Bisoafety into sectoral, cross-sectorl and national development plan