Resolution No. 82 of 2016 of Georgian Government on Sanitary Requirements when Working on Biological Agents

The Resolution adopts sanitary standards for working on biological agents, including on animals. It consists of 12 chapters: General provisions (I); Management of the institution involved in the work with biological agents (II); Risk-analysis principles and risk-groups of pathogens (III); Requirements of biosafety practice and principles (IV); Biosafety levels of laboratories (V); Biosafety level-1 laboratories (VI); Biosafety level-2 laboratories (VII); Biosafety level-3 laboratories (VIII); Laboratories working on animals (IX); Research, inspection, audit and training (X); Launch of laboratory, suspension of activities and control of records (XI); and Bio protection matters (XII). The resolution applies for any person or entity that is involved in diagnosis; experimental and medical activities; industrial and medical activities; registration, storage, inspection, transportation, acceptance, packaging, marking and moving materials; zoological and entomological activities; collection of field materials and transportation from the origins; activities related to arthropods and vertebrates; activities related to hotspots of infectious diseases, and humans and animal infected with extremely hazardous pathogens; activities in hospitals, insulator and observatory units; and path-anatomy work on human corpse and animal carrion.