Current trends in the development of legislation in the field of biosafety and bioeconomics

The article is devoted to the study of current trends in the development of legislation in the field of biosafety and bioeconomics, mainly in connection with the adoption of the new Federal Law "On Biosafety". The authors have proved the importance of the law in ensuring biological safety, establishing the legal basis for protection against biological challenges (threats), while noting its inconsistency with the current documents of the state strategic planning in the field of environmental safety, as well as the development of biotechnologies, bioeconomics. It is proposed at the legislative level to consolidate the foundations of comprehensive state regulation in the field of ensuring biological security of the Russian Federation both as part of the national security of the Russian Federation, and as part of environmental security, and as part of the development of bioeconomics, based on the content of existing strategic planning documents and previously adopted legislative acts. It is proved that the tension between security requirements and the requirements of biotechnology, Bioeconomy should not be mutually exclusive, and the legislation in the sphere of legal Biosafety cannot serve as a condition for minimizing measures for the development of genetic technologies. In this regard, the optimal combination of safety requirements (biological) and "development" efforts (technological, scientific, economic) should become the main task of both policy and law-making. Biosafety should promote a qualitative transition to a new bioeconomy, bioenergy, and quality of life.

state policy, strategic planning, national security, biological security, biological threat, environmental protection, bioeconomics