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05/23/2011
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2001/18/EC as regards the possibility for the Member States to restrict or prohibit the cultivation of GMOs in their territory
04/30/2010
The Act No. 151/2002 Coll. on the use of genetic technologies and genetically modified organisms, as amended, was amended...
04/30/2010
European case law is made by the Court of Justice of the European Communities...
12/11/2009
A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using techniques in genetics generally known as recombinant DNA technology. Recombinant DNA technology is the ability to combine DNA molecules from different sources into the one molecule in a test tube. Thus, the abilities or the phenotype of the organism, or the proteins it produces, can be altered through the modification of its genes.
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What is GMO?
A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using techniques in genetics generally known as recombinant DNA technology. Recombinant DNA technology is the ability to combine DNA molecules from different sources into the one molecule in a test tube. Thus, the abilities or the phenotype of the organism, or the proteins it produces, can be altered through the modification of its genes.
The term generally does not cover organisms whose genetic makeup has been altered by conventional cross breeding or by "mutagenesis" breeding, as these methods predate the discovery of the recombinant DNA techniques. Technically speaking, however, such techniques are, by definition, genetic modification.
Examples of GMOs are diverse, and include transgenic experimental animals such as mice, several fish species, transgenic plants, or various microscopic organisms altered for the purposes of genetic research or for the production of pharmaceuticals. The term "genetically modified organism" does not necessarily imply, but does include, transgenic substitution of genes from another species, and research is actively being conducted in this field. For example, genes for fluorescent proteins can be co-expressed with complex proteins in cultured cells to facilitate study by biologists, and modified organisms are used in researching the mechanisms of cancer and other diseases.
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The Biosafety department has moved from the building of the Ministry of Environment, Nam. L. Stura 1, to workplace on Hanulova 5/D, Bratislava - Dubravka (the building of Slovak Environmental Agency), where continues to operate as the Department of environmental risks and biosafety.
Contacts valid from 26th September 2011:
+421 2 602 01 682 - officers for GMO-agenda
+421 2 602 01 681 - secretariat
+421 905 669 515 - secretariat (cell phone)
+421 905 680 524 - Ing. Tatiana Tobiasova
appointed to represent the head of the department
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