199. The risk assessment of events listed in Chapter 2 concluded that there are negligible risks to people and the environment from the proposed trial of GM wheat. The Risk Analysis Framework (OGTR 2007), which guides the risk assessment and risk management process, defines negligible risks as insubstantial with no present need to invoke actions for their mitigation.
200. These events were considered in the context of the scale of the proposed release (a maximum area of 1 ha on one site in the ACT), the proposed containment measures (Chapter 1, Section 3), and the receiving environment (Chapter 1, Section 6).