Directive No. 06/2009 issued to determine responses to accidental releases of modified organisms.

This Directive concerns emergency measures to be taken by authorities to give a prompt and direct response to any unintended release or any related accident during any transaction, i.e. any making or use of any modified organism in teaching, research, production, import, export, transit, deliberate release, production under contained use, transport, placing on the market, or use as a pharmaceutical, as food, as feed or for processing. The Environmental Protection Authority of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia shall request the Environmental Council to establish an Accidental Release Response Group, which shall be the sole authority responsible for response to any accident involving modified organisms. The Directive defines the duties and responsibilities of the Accidental Release Response Group.