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major organizations, such as the United Nations, UNESCO, 
and FAO. 
The terns of reference of COGENE are that it 
should serve as a nongovernmental interdisciplinary and 
international council of scientists and as a source of 
advice for governments, intergovernmental agencies, 
scientific groups and individuals concerning recombinant 
DNA activities. COGENE's activities are being conducted 
through working groups, and it is the reports of two of 
these working groups that I would like to summarize for 
you today. One Of these has reached printed form, and 
will be presented to ICSU next week- The other one has 
been written especially for this meeting. 
Those working groups are one on guidelines for 
research on recombinant DNA, of which the convener is 
Stanley Cohen from the United States, assisted by scien- 
tists from Canada, Australia, the Soviet Union, France 
the Federal Republic of Germany, and the European 
Molecular Biology Organization. The second one concerns 
risk assessment experiments, and the convener of that is 
Dr. Ann Skalka, from the United States, who is here 
today, assisted by Dr. Bernard i from France and 
Dr. Sgaramella from Italy. 
The Nor king Group on Recombinant DNA Guidelines 
was established last year and charged with the responsibility 
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