Biosafety Commission

Contact: comitebioseguretat@irblleida.cat

Presentation

The IRBLleida's Biosafety Commission is responsible for assessing the biosafety risk of projects initiated at the institution, providing support in training activities for users of rooms with biosafety level 2 or higher, proposing improvements to processes or protocols and advising the centre's management on biosafety issues. The committee meets monthly.

The templates to be assessed must be sent to the committee's e-mail address one week before the meeting so that they can be included in the agenda.

Functions

  • To participate, while verifying the degree of compliance with current legal and internal regulations, in the assessment, identification, review and approval of facilities and research and teaching activities related to the export or import, the release into the environment, contained use, production, transport, commercialisation, packaging, destruction and/or elimination of biological agents, whether genetically modified or not, and the derivatives, products or samples that contain them. The Committee is entitled to request from the research personnel responsible for a given project or procedure with biosafety implications, the additional information it considers necessary for the performance of its functions.
  • To carry out a prior assessment of the installations and activities that require authorisation, before notifying the competent authority, as well as to establish a register and custody of the legally required documentation.
  • To control and guarantee that the IRBLleida's activities and installations comply with current legal and internal regulations.
  • To establish the biosafety procedures to be applied by the IRBLleida Biosafety Committee.
  • To issue the certificates required of it in accordance with its competences.
  • Proposing, when necessary, the improvement of facilities/equipment in terms of biosafety.
  • To register the reception and packaging of biological agents, GMOs and/or their derivatives classified in risk group two or higher.
  • To review information on biological incidents or accidents and notify the competent authorities of any incident, contamination or serious accident involving biohazardous material.
  • To disallow the initiation and suspend any activity that is not in accordance with current regulations.
  • To assess and inform IRBLleida management of any complaints submitted by any member of the research community regarding possible irregularities in areas within the Committee's remit.
  • To assess and train research teams working in laboratories on aspects related to biosafety.
  • To ensure that the confidentiality of the data and information provided to the Committee is guaranteed.
  • To guarantee the necessary coordination with the scientific and technical services of the IRBLleida, the Ethics and Animal Experimentation Committee (CEEA) of the University of Lleida, the Ethics and Animal Experimentation Committee (CEEA) of CREBA and the Ethics Committee for Research with Medicines.
  • Any other function attributed to it by law or by the governing bodies of the IRBLleida.

Members

  • Maria Ruiz Miró, president
  • Núria Bahi Pla, secretary
  • Petya Vladeva Valcheva, technician
  • Marcelí Bermúdez López, member
  • Eloi Garí Marsol, member
  • Eva López Truco, member
  • Eva Parisi Capdevila, member
  • Neus Pedraza Gonzalez, member
  • Carme Piñol Felis, member
  • Alicia Sánchez de la Torre, member