Translation of "biological safety level " (English → French) :

In order to avoid duplication and to ensure that alert notifications under the EWRS are linked with other rapid alert systems at Union level the new EWRS allows access to other Commission services and EU bodies responsible for risk management and risk assessment in areas not specifically covered by the Public Health Directorate of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety of the Commission. These areas include food safety, substances of human origin, animal health, medicines and medical devices, ...[+++]biologicals other than communicable diseases (e.g. plant toxins), chemicals, environmental threats, health security and nuclear and radiological threats.

Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) programmes helped mitigate risks related to accidental, natural or malevolent CBRN issues and aimed at improving safety and security culture by spreading best practices and raising the general level of security and safety awareness.

To establish a level 2 containment laboratory, you have to buy the proper biological safety cabinets.

These stocks, as indicated in the most recent scientific reports, are not below the biological safety thresholds and therefore the objective of the management plans is to ensure that the safety of these levels is maintained.

– (PT) As everyone knows, the overall aim of the Cartagena Protocol on Biological Safety adopted on 29 January 2000, consists of contributing to ensuring an adequate level of protection in the field of the safe transfer, handling and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) produced by modern biotechnology, that may have adverse effects on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, taking also into account risks to human health, including cross-border movements in particular.

recalls the EU’s strategic goals established in Lisbon and its aim of becoming a highly eco-efficient economy that respects the carrying capacity of the environment; regrets that some negative trends in the environment, especially in areas such as climate change, energy, transport and biodiversity, have not been reversed and invites the Commission to evaluate the consequences of failing to reverse these trends; recognises the need to give renewed momentum to the integration of environmental concerns into sectoral policies; emphasises the role of environmental technologies in achieving the goals set under the Lisbon Strategy whilst encouraging measures to improve investment in this area; calls upon the Commission to finalise, by the end ...[+++]of 2004, its review of the EU’s Sustainable Development Strategy; welcomes efforts made to ensure sustainable mobility and to enhance transport safety whilst noting with concern, however, that there are no signs of a significant decoupling of the environmental impacts of transport growth and GDP growth; encourages further limitation of motor pollutant emissions; underlines the Community’s engagement to respect and implement its international commitments on sustainable development at global level and, in particular, measures aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions; emphasises the economic and environmental benefits to be derived from greater energy efficiency; calls for strengthened action to preserve biological diversity.