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EU Regulation of GMOs - Law and Decision Making for a New Technology

Auteur
Lee M.
Date
2008
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-093205)
Éditeur | Lieu de publication
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd | Cheltenham, United Kingdom
ISBN
978-1-84542-606-4
Pages
296 p.
Type du document
Monographie/livre
Langue
Anglais
Pays/Territoire
Union européenne
Sujet
Environnement gén.
Mot clé
Biotechnologie OGM
Résumé

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are an extraordinary innovation. They raise great expectations of economic prosperity and improved capacity to address pressing problems of poverty and environmental degradation, whilst simultaneously raising great concerns about the type of social and physical world they promise. Finding space in regulation to consider the full range of issues provoked by GMOs is a huge challenge. This book explores the EU’s elaborate regulatory framework for GMOs, which extends far beyond the process of their authorisation (or not) for the EU market, embracing disparate legal disciplines including intellectual property, consumer protection and civil liability. The regulation of GMOs also highlights questions of EU legitimacy in a context of multi-level governance, both internally towards national and local government, and externally in a world where technologies and their regulation have global impacts.

Texte intégral
MON-093205TOC.pdf  
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781848443969