National Biosafety Management Agency Act, 2015.

This Act establishes the National Biosafety Management Agency as a body corporate. The Agency shall be the national authority on biosafety in Nigeria charged with the responsibility for providing regulatory framework institutional and administrative mechanism for safety measures in the application of modern biotechnology in Nigeria with the view to preventing any adverse effect on human health, animals, plants and environment. The Agency shall also provide measures for the case-by-case assessment of genetically modified organisms and management of risk in order to ensure safety in the use of genetically modified organisms to human health and the environment and ensure that the use of the genetically modified organisms does not have adverse impact on socio-economic and cultural interests either at the community or national level. The Act also provides for the establishment of a Board of the Agency.
The Agency shall, among other things, propose, for the approval of the Board, the overall policy guidelines on issues of biosafety in Nigeria and implement the provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Cartagena Protocol and other international agreements on matters relating to genetically modified organisms.
The Act also provides for approval by the Agency of import, export, transit, carrying out the contained use, confined field trial, or multi-locational trial and the related mandatory risk assessment, and defines offences.
The Schedules to this Act (four) concern information requirements, risk assessment parameters and risk assessment plans.