| Richard Sandbrook - 2003 - 300 pages
...the protocol adopted a higher standard of precaution in environmental decision-making. It specifies: Lack of scientific certainty due to insufficient relevant...diversity in the Party of import, taking also into account risks to human health, shall not prevent that party from taking a decision, as appropriate, with regard... | |
| Sarah Elderidge - 2003 - 166 pages
...intended for intentional introduction into the environment." One section of the Protocol states that "Lack of scientific certainty due to insufficient...diversity in the Party of import, taking also into account risks to human health, shall not prevent that Party from taking a decision, as appropriate, with regard... | |
| Philippe Sands - 2003 - 1252 pages
...'in accordance' with Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration, and, to that end, the Protocol affirms that 'lack of scientific certainty due to insufficient...the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity' shall 224 Governing Council Decision 15/27 (1989). 225 Art. 4(3)(f). not prevent a party... | |
| Edward Soule - 2003 - 212 pages
...can refuse shipments of GM crops even though there is a "[l]ack of scientific certainty due to the insufficient relevant scientific information and knowledge...the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity." The Protocol belongs in my weak category because such refusal is optional; parties can... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 2003 - 192 pages
...certainty due to insufficient relevant scientific information and knowledge regarding the extent of potential adverse effects of a living modified organism...diversity in the Party of import, taking also into account risks to human health, shall not prevent that Party from taking a decision, as appropriate, with regard... | |
| Ruth Mackenzie - 2003 - 315 pages
...1(8), addressing import decisions for LMOs and LMOFFPs (see para. 9 1 ) respectively, provide that lack of scientific certainty due to insufficient relevant...regarding the extent of the potential adverse effects of a LMO on biodiversity, taking into account risks to human health, shall not prevent a Party of import... | |
| Michael Cardwell, Margaret R. Grossman, C. P. Rodgers - 2003 - 360 pages
...pc-rmits such action only as a temporary derogation, Articles 10.6 and 11.8 of the Protocol state: [l]ack of scientific certainty due to insufficient...knowledge regarding the extent of the potential adverse effect of a living modified org.inism on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 2003 - 332 pages
...concerned about potential environmental damage. Articles 10.6 and 11.8 of the Protocol state that, Lack of scientific certainty due to insufficient relevant...information and knowledge regarding the extent of potential adverse effects of a living modified organism on the conservation and sustainable use of... | |
| Zmarak Shalizi - 2003 - 276 pages
...scientific assessment of risks. Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, endorses "precautionary principle" — that "lack of scientific certainty due to insufficient relevant scientific information and knowledge" should not prevent states from banning imports. Protocol establishes Biosafety Clearing-House to exchange... | |
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