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Polish president signs law on withdrawing from ICGEB

Xinhua, December 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a law on withdrawing Poland from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), the president's chancellery informed on Thursday.

The main reasons for the decision were the high cost of the annual fee (more than 82,000 U.S. dollars in 2015), which significantly exceeded the value of services Polish scientists obtained from the institution, as well as another fee increase as from 2017, the chancellery said.

Another reason was that apart from the ICGEB, Poland also participates in other similar type organizations.

The ICGEB is an international research organization established as a special project of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

The ICGEB conducts innovative research in life sciences for the benefit of developing countries. The main fields of its activity are molecular biology and biotechnology, including biomedicine, crop improvement, etc. Endit