Legal Aspects of Implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

by Segger, Marie-Claire Cordonier; Perron-welch, Frederic; Frison, Christine

• ISBN13: 9781107004382
• ISBN10: 1107004381
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-01-28
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

This book, the first in a new series that focuses on treaty implementation for sustainable development, examines key legal aspects of implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at national and international levels. The volume provides a serious contribution to the current legal and political academic debates on biosafety by discussing key issues under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety that affect the further design of national and international law on biosafety, and analyzing recent progress in the development of domestic regulatory regimes for biosafety. It also examines the legal, political, economic, and practical challenges and solutions encountered in recent efforts to develop and implement domestic biosafety regulations, with a focus on developing countries. In the year of the fifth UN Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, at the signature of a new Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Protocol on Liability and Redress, this timely book examines recent developments in biosafety law and policy.

Table of Contents

Essentials of Biosafety and Sustainable Development Law

Biosafety, the Cartagena Protocol, and sustainable development

Implementing sustainable development through national biosafety frameworks

Crafting national biosafety regulatory systems

Sustainable Development Law and Policy on Biosafety

Risk assessment and risk management

The decision-making procedures of the protocol

Handling, transport, packaging and information

The question of public participation

The biosafety clearing-house and sustainable development law

Use of the biosafety clearing house in practice

Socio-economics, biosafety and sustainable development

The compliance mechanism: development, adoption, content and first years of life

Biosafety, liability and sustainable development

National Implementation of Biosafety Regulatory Aspects

Legislative options for national implementation

National biosafety regulatory systems in Central and Eastern Europe

Implementing the Cartagena Protocol in West Africa: national and regional activities

Comparative analysis of the national biosafety regulatory systems in East Africa

The national biosafety regulatory systems in Asian and Near East countries

The regulatory and institutional biosafety systems in the Americas

National experiences with legislative implementation of the protocol

The Costa Rican legal framework on agricultural genetically modified organisms

Innovations in biosafety law in New Zealand

Liability and redress in Canadian case law: Hoffman v. Monsanto Canada Inc.

The use of GMOs in Chile and the protection of indigenous culture

Global Policy Trends in Biosafety

Sustainable development, biosafety and international law

Trade and investment implications of implementing the Cartagena Protocol

The Cartagena Protocol and the regulation of genetically modified food aid

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