Table 3A.

Results from participants in the testing of the Roadmap (Part I) of the ‘Guidance on Risk Assessment of LMOs developed by the AHTEG under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and the answers by the Party countries to questions on risk assessment (see Box 6) in the third national reports3 on implementation of the Protocol, by countries that are currently conducting risk assessments for commercial production.

Q89. YES—Conducting any risk assessments
Q90. YES—Conducting Risk Assessments for Commercial Production
		Q85a. Using any guidance	Q86. Using AHTEG guidance	Roadmap testing results
				Avg. score all criteria	Number of comments
Party
Norway		Yes	Yes	5	5
Cuba	D	Yes	Yes	4.75	2
Austria (EU)		Yes	No	4.75	15
Egypt	D			4.75	4
Czech Republic (EU)		Yes	Yes	4.5	7
Slovenia (EU)		Yes	No	4.25	0
Spain (EU)		Yes	Yes	4.25	1
Costa Rica	D	Yes	Yes	4	4
European Union*		Yes	No	4	7
Germany (EU)		Yes	No	4	21
Portugal (EU)		Yes	No	4	0
Mexico	D	Yes	No	4	19
South Africa	D	Yes	No	4	12
Italy (EU)		Yes	No	3.75	1
Uruguay	D	Yes	No	3.75	2
VietNam	D	Yes	No	3.5	1
Belgium (EU)		Yes	No	3	5
Colombia	D	Yes	No	2.5	11
Netherlands (EU)		Yes	No	2.25	7
India	D	Yes	No	2.25	48
Brazil	D	Yes	No	2	27
Honduras	D	Yes	No	2	6
Japan		Yes	No	2	25
Philippines	D	Yes	No	2	1
Average				3.55	9.6
Other (Non-Party) Governments
Canada				2.5	21
United States				2.25	10
Australia				2	50
Average				2.13	27

“D” denotes developing country or economy in transition status according to the United Nations (2018)².

^*The European Union participates in the COP-MOPs as a Party, as do the individual member states.