The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) is the competent national authority for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention of Biological Diversity (Cartagena Protocol) in Germany. Thus, the BVL is responsible for the report of export and the unintentional transboundary movement of GMOs if Germany is affected. Furthermore, BVL provides information relating to genetic engineering in Germany at the BCH Central Portal. The BCH is a key element of the Cartagena Protocol and aims at making information regarding genetic engineering accessible to the Parties and the general public worldwide. This includes, for example, the provisions of GMO legislation applicable in Germany and decisions relating to deliberate releases of GMOs in Germany, including summaries of the risk assessments on which these decisions are based.

The BCH Central Portal is available under http://bch.cbd.int/; the German BCH Internet presence is available under http://www.biosicherheit-bch.de.