US embassy cable - 04DUBLIN1853

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Identifier:	04DUBLIN1853
Wikileaks:	View 04DUBLIN1853 at Wikileaks.org
Origin:	Embassy Dublin
Created:	2004-12-30 12:26:00
Classification:	UNCLASSIFIED
Tags:	SENV ETRD EAGR EAID TBIO
Redacted:	This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.

UNCLAS DUBLIN 001853 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR OES/ETC (H.LEE), EB/TPP/ABT (R.SINGH) 
USDA FOR FAS/BIG (JPPASSINO) 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: SENV, ETRD, EAGR, EAID, TBIO 
SUBJECT: IRELAND ON CARTAGENA PROTOCOL: NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS 
 
REF: STATE 259661 
 
1.  There have been no biosafety developments in Ireland 
since the First Meeting of the Parties (MOP-1) to the 
Cartagena Protocol on February 23-27, 2004, according to Ian 
Keating, Principal Officer for Environment Policy in the 
Department of the Environment and Local Government.  In 
discussing reftel with Post, Keating noted that Ireland 
became a party to the Cartagena Protocol on February 12, 
2004, and that the Protocol's requirements applied throughout 
the EU by virtue of the provisions of EU Regulation 
1946/2003.  The Irish Government identified competent 
authorities for the purpose of the Protocol and of the EU 
Regulation in the domestic statute, "Genetically Modified 
Organisms (Transboundary Movement) Regulations 2004," which 
took effect in Ireland also on February 12, 2004.  (Post will 
e-mail this statute to OES/ETC and EB/TPP/ABT.)  Ireland had 
thus completed implementing regulations on transboundary 
movement of GMOs prior to MOP-1.  Since MOP-1, Ireland has 
not implemented any laws, regulations, or practices relating 
to biosafety. 
BENTON