Declaration of the XLIV Ordinary Meeting of the Southern Agricultural Council: Regional Position on Biotechnologies Linked to the Agricultural Sector

The Declaration of the XLIV Ordinary Meeting of the Southern Agricultural Council establishes a regional position of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay on agricultural biotechnology in international negotiations related to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Protocol. It promotes science-based regulatory approaches, highlights the countries' experience in GMO risk assessment and calls for regulatory differentiation between new breeding techniques, including gene editing, and GMOs and their derivatives.