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」It is the proceedings of 」」International Symposium on the Ecological and Environmental Biosafety of Transgenic Plants」」 hosted by the Taiwan Agricultural Research(TARI) in Wufeng, Taichung County,Taiwan. The major topics of the Symposium are:(1)biosafety assessments in principle and practice;(2)the building of facilities and capabilities for biosafety assessment of transgenic plants in field trials;(3)the scientific evaluation of GMOs』 potential effects on the ecology and environment;(4)the ecological and environmental risk assessment/management leading to transparent and science-based approaches for regulating trangenic plants;and (5)technical cooperation and information exchanges, in particular on the experiences of how to create a more-transparent environment for regulating GMOs. The proceedings cover all of the scientific papers presented by the invited speakers, which should be of significant value to agricultural scientists dealing with implementation plans for regulting GMOs. 」