Table 3B.

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 not conducting risk assessments for commercial production or not conducting any risk assessments.

Q89. YES—Conducting any risk assessments
Q90. NO—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
Bolivia	D	No	No	4.5	13
Belarus	D	Yes	Yes	4.5	18
Denmark (EU)		Yes	No	4	3
Turkey	D	No	No	3.5	2
New Zealand		Yes	Yes	2.25	2
Malaysia	D	Yes	Yes	2.25	25
El Salvador	D	Yes	Yes	2	19
Q89. No—Not Conducting Any Risk Assessments
Libya*	D	–	–	5	0
Mauritania	D	No	No	5	0
Niger	D	No	No	5	0
Republic of Moldova	D	No	Yes	5	5
Syria*	D	–	–	5	0
Tajikistan	D	No	No	5	1
Yemen	D	No	Yes	5	0
Liberia	D	No	No	4.75	1
Bosnia	D	Yes	No	4.25	0
Hungary (EU)		Yes	No	4.25	5
Georgia	D	Yes	No	4	0
Peru	D	No	No	3.5	15
Average				4.14	5.7
Other Organizations
Eco-Tiras				5	6
GenOk-Center for Biosafety				5	4
Int’l Association for Human&Animal Health Improvement				5	0
State University Maldova				5	4
Third World Network				5	8
Academy of Science Maldova				4.75	5
ENCA EPA				4.75	9
Friends of the Earth-Ukraine				4.5	3
Public Research & Regulation Initiative				2	16
Global Industry Coalition				1.75	5
Average				4.275	6.7

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

^*Did not submit third national reports by the time of COP-MOP8.