Explanation: GEAC is the statutory committee that functions in the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change.

• It is constituted under the “Rules for the Manufacture, Use/Import/Export and Storage of Hazardous Micro Organisms/Genetically Engineered Organisms or Cells (Rules, 1989)” framed under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.
• Its main function is to approve activities involving large-scale use of hazardous and recombinants in industrial production.

Source: FORUMIAS