European Biosafety Association

EBSA Activities

EBSA Projects Participation

• Biosafety Professional Competence

Biosafety Professional Competency (BSP) - CEN Workshop N 53 startet at 17/18 Dec, 2009. 

The objective is to define skills and tasks for the BSP and to develop a training curriculum. The CEN WS aims to result in a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA), a document based on consensus among participants and close to a standard. The CEN Workshop is open by registration to all interested parties. A `kick-off´ meeting has take place in Frankfurt December 17, 2009. It was followed by the 1st plenary meeting on December 18, also in Frankfurt. A draft ´standard´ document prepared by the EBSA BSP Competency Task Group was circulated to the registered participants. The draft WS business plan, background and registration form is available on CEN - European Committee for Standardization WS53-BSP More information

Make your opinion known! You can influence your own working conditions, the future status and working conditions of the BSP and the future of biosafety and biosecurity in Europe. Register and participate by contacting the Workshop Secretariat . Discussion during the plenary meetings help crystallize the ideas, but all comments to the document are submitted following the meeting for consideration. Therefore even if you cannot attend the plenary meetings you can submit your comments.

• Biorisk Laboratory Management Standard

Safeguard life, property and the environment from biological risks through the development and adoption of recognized standards in the area of management of biological organisms and their products within laboratory environments.


• Biosafety Europe

  Coordination, harmonization and exchange of biosafety and biosecurity practices within a pan-European network. A project mandated by the European Commission within the 6 ^th Framework Programmme on Research and Technological Development. BIOSAFETY-EUROPE Concluding workshop.

Other EBSA Activities

• European Biosecurity and Bio-preparedness

  CBRN Taskforce Bio Sub-groups

  As a result of the responses to the Green Paper the European Commission CBRN Taskforce Bio Sub-groups responded with several drafts of recommendations, which were discussed with member states experts as well as experts from the private sector and other stakeholders.

• Transport

  Transport of Genetically Modified Micro-organisms (GMMO) and Organisms (GMO) or Living Modified Organisms (LMO) and the UN Model Regulations . Read about EBSA's contributions.

• OECD Quality Standards for Microbiological Resource Centers