The Government approved the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and submitted it to Parliament for ratification, IPN reports.

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity is an international treaty governing the transboundary movement of living modified organisms (LMOs) resulting from modern biotechnology. It was adopted on 29 January 2000 as a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity and entered into force on 11 September 2003.

In 2010, the fifth meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety adopted the Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. This was signed on 11 May 2011 at UN Headquarters, New York, during the High-Level Segment of the nineteenth session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.

The objective of the Supplementary Protocol is to contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity by providing international rules and procedures on liability and redress for damage resulting from LMOs. It specifies the measures that need to be taken in response to damage resulting from LMOs that find their origin in a transboundary movement.

Moldova signed the Supplementary Protocol on 25 January 2012, being the 39th Party.