Article 13. Criteria and classifications in the field of biological safety of the Law on Biological Safety of the Republic of Kazakhstan

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1. The treatment of pathogenic biological agents is based on the classification of pathogenic biological agents by pathogenicity and degree of danger:

1) Pathogenicity group I – pathogenic biological agents that cause particularly dangerous infectious diseases of humans and (or) animals with a high mortality rate, easily spreading from an infected organism to a healthy one, as a rule, for which there are no vaccines and effective therapies.;

2) Pathogenicity group II – pathogenic biological agents that cause infectious and (or) parasitic diseases of humans and (or) animals, easily spreading from an infected organism to a healthy one, for which effective means and methods of treatment and prevention, including vaccines, are available. This group is divided into pathogenic biological agents that cause:

especially dangerous infectious diseases;

infectious and/or parasitic diseases;

3) pathogenicity group III – pathogenic biological agents that cause infectious and (or) parasitic diseases of humans and (or) animals or are capable of causing significant harm to plants, characterized by minimal spread from an infected organism to a healthy one, for which effective means and methods of treatment and prevention are available, including vaccines;

4) pathogenicity group IV – pathogenic biological agents that cause infectious and (or) parasitic diseases of humans and (or) animals or are capable of harming plants, as a rule, do not spread from an infected organism to a healthy one, for which effective means and methods of treatment and prevention, including vaccines, are available.

2. Attenuated (attenuated) strains of microorganisms that are pathogenic biological agents of pathogenicity group II belong to pathogenic biological agents of pathogenicity group III.

Attenuated (attenuated) strains of microorganisms that are pathogenic biological agents of pathogenicity group III belong to pathogenic biological agents of pathogenicity group IV.

3. The criteria for classifying pathogenic biological agents as causing particularly dangerous infectious diseases and the list of pathogenic biological agents are formed taking into account their classification by pathogenicity and the degree of danger specified in this article, as well as taking into account recommendations in the field of biological safety of international organizations, the results of biological risk assessment.

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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