Article 1. The basic concepts used in this Law of the Law on Biological Safety of the Republic of Kazakhstan

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The following basic concepts are used in this Law:

1) a susceptible organism is a human, animal, or plant organism that reacts to a pathogenic biological agent by developing an infectious and/or parasitic disease or becomes its carrier;

2) Social distancing is the optimal distance between people necessary to reduce the risk of infection;

3) biological safety is the state of protection of people and individual components of the natural environment (atmospheric air, surface and groundwater, the earth's surface and soil layer, flora and fauna and other organisms (hereinafter referred to as individual components of the natural environment) from dangerous biological factors, including those provided by biological protection measures;

4) requirements in the field of biological safety – norms regulating issues of biological safety contained in the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as regulatory technical documents, national and (or) interstate standards included in the list approved in accordance with subparagraph 11) of Article 9 of this Law;

5) authorized body in the field of biological safety – a state body responsible for the management and intersectoral coordination in the field of biological safety;

6) biological protection – a set of measures to ensure biological safety, implemented through physical protection against the misuse of pathogenic biological agents (a set of organizational measures, engineering and technical means and actions for their protection), monitoring, accounting and ensuring the safe handling of pathogenic biological agents, taking measures to prevent their loss, theft, unauthorized access to them or handling With them, as well as acts of terrorism and (or) sabotage using pathogenic biological agents and (or) in relation to potentially dangerous biological objects;

7) biological risk – the probability of harm to the health of humans, animals, and plants by pathogenic biological agents, as well as the probability of their ingestion into individual components of the natural environment;

8) auxiliary personnel – employees of entities involved in the handling of pathogenic biological agents, performing an auxiliary function in the handling of pathogenic biological agents;

9) a dangerous biological factor is an event, condition, property and (or) process that increases the risks of negative effects of pathogenic biological agents and objects containing them, carriers and vectors on the health of humans, animals, plants, as well as the ingress of pathogenic biological agents into individual components of the natural environment;

10) a strain of a microorganism is a homogeneous culture of a type of microorganism with certain biological properties;

11) pathogenic biological agent – microorganisms, poisons of biological and plant origin (toxins), helminths, nematodes capable of causing an infectious and (or) parasitic process in the human body, animal or plant;

12) handling of pathogenic biological agents – processes (stages) of working with pathogenic biological agents directly aimed at the isolation (detection), development (creation), production (manufacture), turnover (including import (export), storage, transportation) of pathogenic biological agents for the purpose of their research, destruction and (or) the development of immunobiological drugs;

13) a specialist who handles pathogenic biological agents (hereinafter referred to as a specialist) is an individual who has a technical and professional and (or) post–secondary education and (or) higher and (or) postgraduate education, and (or) an academic degree and is duly authorized to handle pathogenic biological agents.;

14) an entity handling pathogenic biological agents is a legal entity handling pathogenic biological agents in accordance with the procedure and under the conditions established by this Law.;

15) chemoprophylaxis is the administration of chemicals to humans and animals to prevent infectious and (or) parasitic diseases.;

16) a potentially dangerous biological object is an immovable (stationary) or deployable mobile object where activities are carried out to handle pathogenic biological agents.

The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated May 21, 2022 No. 122-VII SAM.

This Law defines the legal basis of state regulation in the field of biological safety of the Republic of Kazakhstan and is aimed at preventing biological threats.

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