The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) is the nodal agency for the planning, promotion, co-ordination and overseeing the implementation of environmental and forestry programs in India. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has promulgated the “Rules for manufacture, use/import/ export & storage of hazardous micro organisms/ genetically engineered organisms or cells, 1989”, under the Environment Protection Act, 1986.
The Ministry is also the nodal agency for the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.