Other government agencies, such as the General Administration on Quality Supervisions Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) are also involved.
SEPA is China's leading agency on the Biosafety Protocol and is the process of drafting a National Biosafety Law.
There is no timeframe, however. The US government is engaged in bilateral (and interministerial) policy and technical discussions with China as well as a suite of biotechnology capacity building activities to support these discussions.
Through this, the US government continues to push for increased transparency in the development of regulations governing this field and look for ways to promote overall market access for U.S. biotechnology crops.
United States Department of Agriculture
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