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USCIB continues its influential work on biotechnology regulatory matters in the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Business input to the OECD, which groups 30 leading industrialized nations, comes through the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC), which USCIB represents in the United States.
At a 19 November consultation between the BIAC Biotechnology Committee and key OECD secretariat biotech leaders, BIAC presented its just-published brochure, “Biotechnology: A Key Contributor to Sustainable Growth.”
The vision paper projects the state of the various applications of biotechnology ten years from now and contains suggestions for where the OECD should focus its efforts on biotechnology work in the interim period. The booklet also offers specific proposals for future activities related to biotech applications such as food, health, environment, industry and emerging opportunities.
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Terry Medley (DuPont), who chairs both USCIB’s and BIAC biotechnology committees, at the Paris consultation with OECD
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A main business message to the OECD is that modern biotechnology is a key component for both developed and developing countries in realizing the ambitious goal of sustainable growth. BIAC sees the OECD as being ideally situated, thanks to its high-quality analytical work and integrated analysis, to take international leadership on biotechnology policy.
BIAC continues to support the OECD’s activities across relevant directorates to facilitate further discussion, debate and consensus on these issues and underlines that visionary thinking is required to identify the key issues and strategies to be developed to move towards a bio-based economy.
Staff contact: Karen Clark Anderson
More on USCIB’s Biotechnology Committee
BIAC website
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OECD Conference on the Changing Dimensions of the Food Economy – Over the past year, BIAC involvement in the work of the OECD Agricultural Directorate has continued to intensify. Business has much at stake in the agri-food sector as it covers a wide range of products and services. For this reason, BIAC is gratified to have been invited to participate in a February 6-7 OECD Conference on “Changing Dimensions of the Food Economy: Exploring the Policy Issues,” to be held in The Hague. The program will cover a large scope of issues within the evolving food economy and changing food lifestyles. A BIAC speaker will take the podium in a session on business response to these evolving food lifestyles due to ever-increasingly sophisticated consumer demand. The conference will end with a session on transparency and responsibility in the food supply chain and a debate on private initiatives vs. government regulation. More information is available from Karen Clark Anderson.
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