Article 9. Competence of the authorized body in the field of biological safety of the Law on Biological Safety of the Republic of Kazakhstan

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The competence of the authorized body in the field of biological safety includes:

1) coordination of draft regulatory legal acts, regulatory technical documents, national and (or) interstate standards related to biological safety issues;

1-1) formation and implementation of the state policy in the field of biological safety and organization of its implementation;

2) maintenance of the state information system in the field of biological safety;

3) development and approval of accounting, monitoring and forecasting (modeling) rules in the field of biological safety;

4) monitoring the accounting of subjects handling pathogenic biological agents, potentially dangerous biological objects, pathogenic biological agents of pathogenicity groups I and II and specialists handling them;

5) development of rules for the formation, maintenance and maintenance of national collections of pathogenic and industrial microorganisms and a list of organizations authorized to form, maintain and maintain them;

6) coordination of standard programs of professional training, retraining and advanced training of personnel in the field of biological safety;

7) development of criteria for classifying pathogenic biological agents as causing particularly dangerous infectious diseases and a list of pathogenic biological agents, taking into account the classification of pathogenic biological agents by pathogenicity and degree of danger;

8) development and approval of rules for the formation of a personnel reserve of specialists for the management of pathogenic biological agents of pathogenicity groups I and II;

9) development and approval of rules for biological protection;

10) coordination of biological risk management techniques;

11) development and approval of a list of regulatory technical documents, national and (or) interstate standards in the field of biological safety;

12) development and approval of rules for monitoring the effectiveness of external biological risk assessment;

13) monitoring the effectiveness of the external assessment of biological risks conducted by the state bodies specified in paragraph 3 of Article 10 of this Law;

14) analysis and forecasting of biological threats;

15) coordination of targeted scientific, scientific and technical projects and programs in the field of biological safety;

16) representation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in international organizations on biological safety issues;

17) informing the public about the state of biological safety of the Republic of Kazakhstan in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on access to information;

17-1) approval of criteria for classifying pathogenic biological agents as causing particularly dangerous infectious diseases and a list of pathogenic biological agents, taking into account the classification of pathogenic biological agents by pathogenicity and degree of danger;

18) exercise of other powers provided for by this Law, other laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan, acts of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

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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