The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has introduced a mechanism for tracking the sale of products containing genetically modified organisms (GMO)or those produced using GMOs.
MPs approved by 324 votes (out of 413 present at the sitting) a draft law on amending the law on the state biosecurity system when creating, testing, transporting and using genetically modified organisms.
The law foresees that legal entities that are selling such products for the first time have to submit a declaration indicating information about the business entity and about goods containing GMO or those produced using them, as well as indicate the number of these goods in the state register of GMOs.
According to law, business entities, while supplying its clients with goods containing GMOs, are to provide them copies of the declaration with the information mentioned above.
Entities that received GMO-goods are to retain this declaration for five years from the day of delivery of the products.
The law envisages that central executive bodies are to create a network of laboratories to test for GMOs in goods, while the Cabinet of Ministers should approve a resolution on the network of laboratories to test for GMOs.
Moreover, the law says that the scientific and methodological coordination of the work of the testing laboratories for detecting GMOs in products will be implemented by the scientific and methodological center testing goods for GMO contents.
The scientific and methodological center testing for GMOs is a state scientific establishment that receive and prepares reference samples of GMOs for storage and providing to other testing laboratories for research.
