The objectives of the biosafety policy are to:

1. adopt measures to ensure safe research, production, transfer, handling, use, export, import, and all other possible dealings with genetically modified organisms and products thereof;
2. strengthen institutional, scientific and technical capacities of the country to deal with biosafety issues;
3. develop high quality infrastructural facility for GMO detection and identification;
4. enhance human capacity in different areas related to biosafety;
5. implement the obligations of Bangladesh as a Party to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
6. take into consideration socio-economic and ethical issues in decision making process relating to biosafety;
7. promote public participation, accountability and transparency in all matters relating to biosafety.