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Dr. Adel Zaki
from Namru March 17-20, 2010 Indus Hospital
WS 55 Kick-off meeting for CWA 15793 Doc
23-26TH February 2010 Brussels.
Biosafety
Training Events Dubai Jan 12-14, 2010
Certification
Course Dec 6th 2009
2nd
International Biosafety Seminar, Aga Khan Uni. Auditorium, Karachi Dec
05, 2009
Biosafety
Awareness program in Indus Hospital Nov 14, 2009
International
Conference on Emerging Zoonotic Infections, Cairo Oct 15-17, 2009
Workshop on
Biosafety Oct 05-09, 2009, Islamabad, Pakistan
Asean Regional Fourm Workshop Manila June
10-11, 2009
1st BACAC Conference May 18
-20 2009 Almaty Kazakhstan
2nd Seminar on
Biosafety April 05, 2009 Shoukat Khanum
Memorial Hospital, Lahore
1st
Seminar on Biosafety
March
21, 2009 Auditorium,
Agha Khan University Hospital, Karachi
PBSA Organized
Presentation 11th Feb 2010 Aga Khan University
Guest Lecture By
Dr. Terence Taylor
Launching of
PBSA July 2008 Islamabad
Dr
Aamer Ikram (Founder Member PBSA) has been selected by BWC Experts |
WS 55 Kick-off meeting for CWA 15793 Doc
23-26TH
February 2010 Brussels.
The CEN workshop
Kickoff meeting was attended by a group of Pakistan Biological Safety
Association (PBSA) members sponsored by Biosafety Engagement
Program (BEP) USA.
The meeting was
attended by ;
Dr.Shamsul Arfien
Qasmi
Dr.Masood Rabbani
Dr.Akram Shah
Ms. Shahida Mumtaz
Qureshi.
Dr Anwar Nasim and Dr
Erum Khan could not attend due to their commitments.
Highlights of the meeting
Opening of the
meeting:
Ms. Gaïd Le Gall, CEN
Programme Manager, Innovation and Business Development, CEN, opened
the meeting and welcomed the participants to the CWA 55 kick-off
meeting which was held to discuss and approve the draft business plan
as published on the CEN website and to nominate Chair, Vice-chair and
Secretary.
Ms. Le Gall presented
the background of a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA). It can be seen as
bridging the gap between European Standards and consortia’s 'self
made' standards and can be used for consensus documents outside of
Europe. It can speed-up the standardization process, respond to the
needs of fast evolving markets, and offer an open and flexible
process.
Other characteristics
of a CWA are that all organizations and interested individuals are
allowed to participate (including those from outside Europe), and it
is based upon direct participation, i.e. everyone may participate
directly in the elaboration of the CWA and resulting consensus
document. The results of the CWA are purely voluntary in application
CWA 15793 is not a
technical document, but performance orientated, which allows for
finding local solutions for local problems. The CWA is not a legal or
regulatory document, but a voluntary one. It is based on the current
WHO Biosafety and Biosecurity guidelines and can be seen as a logical
extension of these guidelines. CWA 15793 is currently being
implemented in several laboratories.
The version of the
business plan from the CEN website (rev. 11 of 2009-12-16) was
discussed and modified with corrections with the input provided by the
members.
The use of the term
‘’standard’’ in the title of CWA 15793:2008 was discussed and
attracted some comment because of the risk of confusion with a formal
European Standard
The delegation from
Pakistan asked how CWA 15793 will be implemented and certified in
practice. It was emphasized by the Chair that the primary goal of this
CWA is to improve Biosafety and Biosecurity, and not to certify.
Although it is considered, at the moment no official certification is
done. The CWA is suited to be used for- and allows for ‘self
declaration’.
 
Members of PBSA
Management Committee at CEN Workshop 53 in Brussels Feb 23-26TH 2010 |
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