What is the PBS program?
- Approach
- Activities
- Expected Outcomes
Expected Outcomes
PBS's goal is to effectively address biosafety within a sustainable development strategy anchored by agriculture-led economic growth, trade, and environment objectives, and to achieve the following strategic outcomes:
- An enabling regulatory environment that advances the safe use of new biotechnologies in agriculture will be in place in PBS partner countries in Africa and Asia.
- Partner countries with established regulatory systems will efficiently respond to emerging requirements from international standard-setting processes and agreements, or postcommercialization requirements.
- Models of robust risk assessment and regulatory approaches for biotechnology applications will have been developed— based on scientific and policy research and stakeholder consultations—and incorporated into regulatory frameworks in partner countries.
- Regulatory authorities and scientific institutions in target countries will have conducted and implemented regulatory assessments and timely decisionmaking on a pipeline of promising agri-biotechnologies and traded commodities.