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Appendix III-C 
Information on International i 
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Guidelines for Recombinant DNA i 
The following information is based largely on in- 
ternational surveys undertaken by The Committee 
on Genetic Experimentation of the International 
Council of Scientific Unions reported as of July 
1979.1 
/. Nations that had established guidelines for conduct 
of rDNA research or were using the guidelines of 
other nations: 
Australia 
Italy 
Belgium 
Japan 
Brazil 
Mexico 
Bulgaria 
Netherlands 
Canada 
New Zealand 
Czechoslovakia 
Norway 
Denmark 
Poland 
German Democratic 
South Africa 
Republic 
Sweden 
Federal Republic of 
Switzerland 
Germany 
Taiwan 
Finland 
United Kingdom 
France 
United States 
Hungary 
U.S.S.R. 
Israel 
Yugoslavia 
II. Nations that had 
not established guidelines o. 
not responded with updated information: 
Country 
Yes No 
Austria 
X 
Ghana 
X 
India 
X 
Iran 
X 
Jamaica 
X 
Korea 
X 
Nigeria 
X 
Singapore 
X 
Sri Lanka 
X 
Sudan 
X 
Turkey 
X 
III. Nations that had drafted their own guidelines: 
Canada 
Japan 
Federal Republic of 
United Kingdom 
'Report to COGENE from the working group on Recombinant DNA Guide- 
lines, May 1980. 
Germany United States 
France U.S.S.R. 
Italy 
/V. Nations that had modified the guidelines of other, 
indicated, countries: 
Australia (UK, U.S.) 
Belgium (UK, U.S.) 
Brazil (U.S.) 
Bulgaria (U.S.S.R., U.S.) 
Czechoslovakia (U.S.S.R., 
U.S., Fed. Rep. Ger.) 
Denmark (UK) 
East (ierman Democratic 
Republic (UK, U.S., 
Netherlands) 
Finland (U.S. mainly) 
Hungary (U.S.) 
Mexico (U.S.) 
Netherlands (U.S.) 
New Zealand 
Norway (U.S.) 
Poland (U.S.) 
South Africa (U.S.) 
Sweden (U.S) 
Switzerland (U.S.) 
Taiwan (IfS., UK) 
Yugoslavia 
(European Science 
Foundation) 
V. Nations in which entirely voluntary guidelines have 
been adopted: 
Finland 
VI. Nations with guidelines that are enforceable 
through control of research funding: 
Australia^ 
Canada 
Czechoslovakia^ 
Denmark 
Federal Republic of 
Germany^ 
France 
German Democractic 
Republic 
Japan 
Netherlands'* * 
Norway 
South Africa 
Sweden 
Switzerland 
'Faiwaiv' 
United Kingdom' 
United States 
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^■'Submissions may be made directly to the Ai adeni) of Si leni-e or 
through a granting agency. In the latter casiv it is .i iTi|uiremeni (or the «p 
plicant to observe the recommendations o( the Ar.idrms s standing ( oni 
mittee if the agency makes a grant for the work Otherwiv lire giiidrlinn 
are voluntary with the worker reipiiriil to make an annual rejiorl on prog 
ress, or more frequently if conditions o( the esiii'rimi-nl Ism h at wilunml 4 
are changed appreciably " 
*l"Control through Academy of Sciences and Minisirs ol Health 
i-Several research organizations require rii ewers o( grants to appK lt*r 
NIH guidelines until their own national guidelines are eonipletiil 
i*The Netherlands Organization for the Adsani-einenI of ISire Ri-teair h 
will only subsidize projects which have bii-n given the i ommiltee 1 1 ontrot 
^"Waiting for response from National Adv isory ( ommillrf 
^''Notification of proposals to (,M \(, bm ami- compultvirv kiigiiti I 1978 
In addition, funding iHidies re<|uire. as a condition of liinifiog tiMMis ad 
vice to be sought and followed 
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