A implementação da política de biossegurança de transgênicos no Brasil

Abstract

The implementation of a public policy is a key phase of cicle of policy in which the goals and objectives formulated in its design must be achieved. In this paper we present the study of case of the Brazilian biosafety policy that was formulated in order to control and regulate the activities with genetically modified organisms in Brazil, the transgenics. In this study, in particular, we seek to answer if this policy is being properly executed in the country or if there are failures in implementing the program and why these. For this, we conducted a literature review covering the major theories of implementation, involving policy instruments and approaches the main barriers to implementing these. Under the lens of this theoretical framework, we investigated mainly the perception of the actors involved through interviews and questionnaires, and additionally examined the legal provisions of the main law of this policy, the Law 11.105 / 05 to set its main instruments. These are the CNBS, CTNBio, OERF, CIBio and SIB. Of these, only the SIB, the system responsible for being the confluence of all the information related to the policy, had not been implemented yet, despite the determination expressed in the law. The empirical findings suggest that the causes of non-implementationmainly around the lack of institutional priority. However, despite this failure, this study revealed that the policy in question has been considered implemented and able to fulfill its purpose originally designed in its formulation - to control research and the use of transgenic products in Brazil.