The Federal Law regulates biological safety in the Russian Federation.
The Federal Law defines the principles for ensuring biological safety, the main biological threats and a set of measures to protect the public and the environment from dangerous biological factors, to stave off biological threats, to create and develop a system for monitoring biological risks, combat the spread of infectious diseases, form, preserve and develop collections of pathogenic microorganisms and viruses, plan the creation of production facilities and reserves, including the state material reserve of products to ensure the safety of the public, and to provide medical help to people.
Under the Federal Law, the key goals behind the activities to ensure biological safety include forecasting, identifying, analysing and assessing biological risks; coordinating federal, regional and local government body activities when working to ensure biological safety; and organising biological safety research activities.
The Federal Law establishes requirements for monitoring biological risks and for a biosafety public information system.