Panama: Agricultural Biotechnology Annual

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   PN2021-0012

Panama did not make any policy changes regulating Genetically Engineered (GE) plants, seeds and animals (including for GE microbes) in 2021. Panama has not established the implementing regulations of Law 48 of 2002, which created the National Commission of Biosafety for Genetically Modified Organisms. However, on September, 2021 the Government of Panama requested, through the Ministry of Agricultural Development, the technical assistance of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) to help them develop implementing regulations on biotechnology and new production technologies, in order to have clear procedures regarding the approval process and coordination among all of the competent government agencies in charge of authorizing the import, research, production and commercialization of agricultural biotechnology and other new production technologies in Panama.

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