Development of the National Biosafety Framework National Coordination Committee (CNC) and Working Groups
In 2001, Uruguay adhered to the United Nations "Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety". In 2004, the "Development of the National Biosafety Framework" project URU-04-009 was started, with support from the United Nations Environment Program and the Global Environment Facility, which promote projects of the same character in more than 100 countries. The project had to include civil society participation, so that from 2005, a National Coordination Committee (CNC) was established, a multi-sectorial entity open to the participation of representatives of institutions and organizations with competencies and interests in aspects related to the development of modern biotechnology. This also included representatives from the government, academic, business, NGO and producer and worker organizations. The CNC had to contribute to the basic understanding of all those aspects required for the formulation of the proposed National Biosafety Framework, as well as to ensure a transparent development of the process. In addition, working groups were established for the discussion on sectorial aspects of the problem from the CNC, but they were open and joined by more stakeholders. In September 2007, the final report, "Proposal for a National Biosafety Framework for Uruguay" was published, which was an input to a biosafety law.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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