Law Establishing the Moratorium on Living Modified Organisms for a Period of 10 years (Law No. 29811)

In 2011 the Peruvian president Ollanta Humala signed the Law No. 29811 which establishes a ten (10) year moratorium preventing the entry and production of living modified organisms (LMOs) including aquatic for the purposes of cultivation or breeding for further release into the environment. (Article). The purpose of this law is to strengthen national capacities, develop infrastructure and generate baselines with respect to native biodiversity, which allow for adequate evaluation of the activities that release LMOs into the environment. The Ministry of Environment is the National Focal point and implementor of the law in accordance to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety – and is required to ensure that the mechanisms of protection and promotion of native biodiversity is fulfilled in the period of 10 years.