{"id":15683,"date":"2021-07-04T18:23:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T18:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15683"},"modified":"2021-07-04T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T19:19:10","slug":"ordinance-on-safety-and-health-protection-at-workplaces-involving-biological-agents-biological-agents-ordinance-biostoffv-german-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15683","title":{"rendered":"Ordinance on Safety and Health Protection at Workplaces Involving Biological Agents (Biological Agents Ordinance &#8211; BioStoffV) German law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Full citation: Ordinance on Safety and Health Protection at Workplaces Involving Biological Agents (Biological Agents Ordinance &#8211; BioStoffV) of 15 July 2013 (Federal Law Gazette [BGBl.] Part I p. 2514), last amended by Article 146 of the Law of 29 March 2017 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 626)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Part 1<br \/>\nScope, definitions and classification into risk groups<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15685\">Section 1 Scope<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15685\">Section 2 Definitions<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15685\">Section 3 Classification of biological agents into risk groups<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Part 2<br \/>\nRisk assessment, assignment to protection levels, documentation and record-keeping obligations<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15687\">Section 4 Risk assessment<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15687\">Section 5 Activities with an assigned protection level<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15687\">Section 6 Activities not assigned to a protection level<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15687\">Section 7 Documentation of the risk assessment and record-keeping obligations<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Part 3<br \/>\nBasic obligations and protective measures<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15690\">Section 8 Basic obligations<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15690\">Section 9 General protective measures<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15690\">Section 10 Additional protective measures and requirements for activities of protection levels 2, 3 or 4 in laboratories, the husbandry of laboratory animals and biotechnology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15690\">Section 11 Additional protective measures and requirements for activities of protection levels 2, 3 or 4 in healthcare facilities<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15690\">Section 12 Preventive occupational health care<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15690\">Section 13 Incidents, accidents<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15690\">Section 14 Operating instructions and training of employees<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Part 4<br \/>\nLicensing and notification obligations<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15692\">Section 15 Licensing obligation<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15692\">Section 16 Notification obligation<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Part 5<br \/>\nEnforcement rules and Committee on Biological Agents<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15694\">Section 17 Information of the authority<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15694\">Section 18 Exemptions granted by the authority<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15694\">Section 19 Committee on Biological Agents<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Part 6<br \/>\nAdministrative offences, criminal offences and transitional provisions<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15696\">Section 20 Administrative offences<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15696\">Section 21 Criminal offences<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15696\">Section 22 Transitional provisions<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15698\">Annex I<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15698\">Biohazard sign<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15698\">Annex II<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15698\">Additional protective measures for activities in laboratories and comparable facilities and in the husbandry of laboratory animals<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15698\">Annex III<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15698\">Additional protective measures for biotechnological activities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full citation: Ordinance on Safety and Health Protection at Workplaces Involving Biological Agents (Biological Agents Ordinance &#8211; BioStoffV) of 15 July 2013 (Federal Law Gazette [BGBl.] Part I p. 2514), last amended by Article 146 of the Law of 29&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/?p=15683\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laws-regulations-of-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15704,"href":"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683\/revisions\/15704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laweuro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}