Egypt: Agricultural Biotechnology Annual

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At the end of 2014, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Environment submitted a new draft biosafety bill to the Cabinet, which has been under review by the Cabinet’s legal advisors before its submission to Parliament, once elections takes place, for its ratification. On September 7, 2014 the former Minister of Agriculture Dr. Adel El Beltagy issued Ministerial Decree # 1495 to reestablish the National Biosafety Committee (NBC). However, to date, the NBC has yet to convene a meeting. 

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