The Commission's New Approach to the Cultivation of Genetically Modified Organisms

Poli, Sara

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“…As with earlier proposed formulations, these restrictions must not impact upon authorised crops already planted and must be in compliance with EU law. 134 In particular, any measures must aim to fulfil a legitimate objective in a proportionate and non-discriminatory manner. 135 In this respect, Article 26b(3) includes a non-exhaustive list of objectives that encompasses agricultural policy, socioeconomic impacts and prevention of admixture.…”

Section: Article 26b -'Opt-out' Clausementioning

confidence: 99%

Attaining Subsidiarity-Based Multilevel Governance of Genetically Modified Cultivation?

Dobbs¹

2016

J Environmental Law

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The cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in the EU is highly harmonised, but with persisting conflicts over authority. The Commission responded to internal and external pressures with a more flexible approach to coexistence, a proposed optout clause and a promise to review the existing EU GM regime, providing an opportunity to consider and suggest paths of development. This article considers the post-authorisation policy-making powers of Member States and subnational regions, in light of subsidiarity-based multilevel governance. It considers the different approaches to risk-centred issues and more general policy choices. Overall, the developments occurring at the EU level are strengthening subsidiarity-based multilevel governance within the GM cultivation regime, but with significant opportunities to improve it further through focussing on the complementary powers, coordination and the regional levels in particular.

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Section: Article 26b -'Opt-out' Clausementioning

confidence: 99%

Attaining Subsidiarity-Based Multilevel Governance of Genetically Modified Cultivation?

Dobbs¹

2016

J Environmental Law

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“…From this perspective, the WTO did not help, but also could not help to resolve the main EU internal problem with GMOs: political conflicts over GMO authorisations, especially for cultivation, and disagreements over EFSA scientific decisions and its authority (Dąbrowska-Kłosińska 2012;Poli 2010a: 147-48). Put another way, the WTO external discipline assisted reinforcement of the legal and institutional EU governance on GMOs, but it could not remove the structural obstacles in the functioning of the regime, that is the political stalemate and the problem with democratic legitimacy of Commission's decisions for product approvals against the inability of Member States to reach qualified majority of votes in favour or against a GMO concerned (Dąbrowska-Kłosińska 2012;Poli 2010b;cf. also Navah 2013).…”

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“…It however remains an unsettled question whether the Commission will use its new competence to refrain from adopting controversial decisions on the basis of e.g. minority scientific views included in EFSA opinions (Poli 2010b).…”

Section: Reshaping the Eu Domestic Regime On Gmo Risks Post-2006respomentioning

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The EU and Transnational Regulation of GMO Risks

Dąbrowska-Kłosińska¹

2014

SSRN Journal

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This paper explores the role of the EU in shaping transnational regulation of GMOs and attempts to establish whether the EU's system of governance prompts experimentalist solutions at the international level in this field. In order to accomplish this aim the paper analyses the relationship between the EU policy on GMOs and the growth of the international regulatory framework which addresses risks associated with modern biotechnology products. More specifically, it examines the means through which the EU has attempted to extend its own norms, standards and governance of GMO risks to third countries and at the international level. It addresses the questions. What are the distinctive features of these processes and the characteristics of the regulatory systems created? In what way does the EU participate in the development of transnational regimes on GMOs, and do the latter regimes resemble the experimentalist architecture? Does EU policy in this area have repercussions on its domestic policy? 'EXTENDED VERSION OF A CHAPTER FORTHCOMING IN JONATHAN ZEITLIN (ED.), EXTENDING EXPERIMENTALIST GOVERNANCE? THE EU AND TRANSNATIONAL REGULATION'

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“…It has re-opened the GM agenda. It is encouraging member states to go their own way by removing the semblance of moratorium (Poli, 2010, p. 339). The change being introduced by the EU Commission is being emulated by other bodies of the EU particularly the European Parliament.…”

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“…The governance of emerging technologies cannot be impervious to the lessons from the GM debacle and the policy shifts it triggered. The lessons are even more important in the case of Ethiopia as the debate seems to lag behind as can be gathered from the endorsement of policies that Europe is thoroughly overhauling (Poli, 2010, p. 339).…”

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Re-inventing the GM Debate: The Ethiopian Biosafety Law and its Implications for Innovation and Knowledge Production on Emerging Technologies

Demissie

Muchie

2014

Science, Technology and Society

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A regulatory framework is among the major factors that determine the innovative capacity of a nation. It may block or ease innovative performance; it may scare away skills and expertise or may reverse brain drain and waste, it may attract and retain investment or lead to relocation of investors. The Ethiopian Biosafety Proclamation of 2009 has come under thorough scrutiny from all sides for its effect on innovation in biotechnology in Ethiopia. While it was expected to introduce a creative mechanism of compliance with international environmental agreements without upsetting the promising biotechnology research in Ethiopia, it conspicuously failed to strike a balance between the imperatives of promoting innovation and protecting humans and biodiversity. Contrary to the claims of the architects of the Proclamation, the legislation hardly entertained any national indigenous input other than adopting a more stringent version of the parent law—the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The article examines the Ethiopian Biosafety law and its impact on innovation in biotechnology and other emerging technologies that go by other names. It will discuss some striking parallels between EU biotechnology regulation and the Proclamation and in particular the U-turns Europe is taking. Broader issues of the linkage between regulation and innovation policy and the imperatives of expediting innovation are emerging as Ethiopia takes the road Europe is abandoning and even international biosafety regulation is revising. It will argue that the promotion of the responsible development of biotechnology in Ethiopia needs to be reinstated as a priority and not pushed aside as secondary interest.

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The Commission's New Approach to the Cultivation of Genetically Modified Organisms

Abstract: The Commission has proposed to legitimise the renationalization of the cultivation of GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) accepting the request of a group of Member States who raised concerns at the Environment Council of June 2009 regarding the EU-wide decisions on GMO2 cultivation.

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Attaining Subsidiarity-Based Multilevel Governance of Genetically Modified Cultivation?

Attaining Subsidiarity-Based Multilevel Governance of Genetically Modified Cultivation?

The EU and Transnational Regulation of GMO Risks

Re-inventing the GM Debate: The Ethiopian Biosafety Law and its Implications for Innovation and Knowledge Production on Emerging Technologies

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