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The Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission (AEBC) provided the UK Government and Devolved Administrations with independent strategic advice on developments in biotechnology and their implications for agriculture and the environment. It looked at the broad picture, taking ethical and social issues into account as well as the science. Set up in June 2000, the AEBC formed part of the strategic framework on biotechnology, alongside the Human Genetics Commission and the Food Standards Agency.
AEBC's Secretariat was based within OST. On 27 May 2004 the Government announced a routine review of the AEBC and on 2 December 2004 the Independent reviewer's report was published. Government published its response on 5 April 2005, and as a result, at the end of April 2005, the AEBC was wound up on the basis that, after completing its current work, it would have largely discharged its original remit.
The last report that the AEBC, published in April 2005, was entitled 'What shapes the research agenda? In agricultural biotechnology'. The Government published its response to this report on 14 December 2005.
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