The legal clash between public health, environmental protection and the free market of GMOs: the Cartagena protocol and the WTO agreements

L. Escajedo San Epifanio

The legal clash between public health, environmental protection and the free market of GMOs: the Cartagena protocol and the WTO agreements

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L. Escajedo San Epifanio

L. Escajedo San Epifanio Department of Constitutional Law and History of Political Thought, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain; leire.escajedo@ehu.es

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Pages:: 482–486

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086867844_078

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The goal of Safety in the use of Biotechnology (BT) became a priority on the international Agenda since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The challenges we are to face at the time of setting up the regulatory framework for modern BT are many and varied. In addition to the risks, governing norms will have to attend to a great many social interests which are often incompatible among one another. According to official data offered regularly by different UN Agencies and by the Biosafety Clearing House created in the context of the Cartagena Protocol, more than seventy countries have some sort of governing system for Biosafety. In addition, there are about fifty binding and non binding international tools to manage the issue with and the vast majority of them were adopted after 1995/1996, when the commercial expansion of GM began. The present research pays close attention to the Cartagena Protocol, given its worth as a global tool and because of its binding nature. Worth mentioning as well is the elaboration process of the Document because this was the scenario on which the different views on modern Biotechnology were put forth. That should serve to account for the complexity of the issue and for the difficulty of yielding agreements on it. We will also point out the conflicts between the Protocol and the regulations governing international trade of food stuffs and stemming off from WTO agreements, namely.

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The ethics of consumption

The citizen, the market, and the law

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Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 01 Nov 2013

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