New briefing paper - Regulating Modern Biotechnology in Europe
This briefing paper reviews some of the main issues in this long and continuing debate – risk assessment and management, the precautionary principle, sectoral or technology-specific regulation, and the related regulatory developments – particularly within the European Union, but also internationally, over the past quarter-century.
- The debates on biosafety and regulation
- EU regulations from 1990 to date
- International developments
- European Commission strategy
Concise, authoritative and balanced for non-specialists – policy makers, scientists, companies, journalists, public interest organisations and all others interested.