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European Biosecurity Workshop: Biothreat Prevention in Practice

The Danish Centre for Biosecurity and Biopreparedness (CBB), Statens Serum Institut will as part of the Danish EU presidency in 2012 host a biosecurity workshop under the title:

European Biosecurity Workshop: Biothreat Prevention in Practice

Centre for Biosecurity and Biopreparedness

The Centre for Biosecurity and Biopreparedness (CBB) is the national authority that issues licences to research institutions, pharmaceutical companies, hospital laboratories etc. to allow them to work with biological dual use components. 

By an Act of the Danish parliament in pursuance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540, materials that could be misused for the development and use of Weapons of Mass Destruction - in casu biological weapons - must be secured against diversion and aquisition for nefarious purposes. CBB is in charge of administering the necessary and sufficient biosecurity requirements to fulfill this obligation. 

The Centre also maintains a 24/7 response capability to counter the effects of a biological incident whether of accidental or malicious origins. 

The Centre is part of Statens Serum Institut and refers to the Minister of Health. The staff is scientifically trained personel with a background in e.g. microbiology, medicine, law or the arts or with previous experience from defence or police. 

Director of the Centre  is John-Erik Stig Hansen, MD, DMSc.  

Organisation of the Centre:

 

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The Danish Executive Order on securing specific biological substances, delivery systems and related materials is available in 22 languages.
 
The documents have been translated by DG Translation - the European Commission's in-house translation service. These are not legally binding translations, but can be used for information purposes.

The Centre for Biosecurity and Biopreparedness does not take responsibility for any potential errors in these translations. The Danish version of the Executive Order is the legally binding version and the English and German translations have been revised accordingly by The Centre for Biosecurity and Biopreparedness.

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