Are current EU policies on GMOs justified?

Bidragets oversatte titel: Kan EUs nuværende politikker vedrørende GMO retfærdiggøres?

Andreas Christiansen, Klemens Kappel, Martin Marchman Andersen

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Abstract

The European Court of Justice’s recent ruling that the new techniques for crop development are to be considered as genetically modified organisms under the European Union’s regulations exacerbates the need for a critical evaluation of those regulations. The paper analyzes the regulation from the perspective of moral and political philosophy. It considers whether influential arguments for restrictions of genetically modified organisms provide cogent justifications for the policies that are in place, in particular a pre-release authorization requirement, mandatory labelling, and de facto bans (in the form of withholding or opting out of authorizations). It is argued that arguments pertaining to risk can justify some form of pre-release authorization scheme, although not necessarily the current one, but that neither de facto bans nor mandatory labelling can be justified by reference to common arguments concerning naturalness, agricultural policy (in particular the promotion of organic farming), socio-economic effects, or consumers’ right to choose.

Bidragets oversatte titelKan EUs nuværende politikker vedrørende GMO retfærdiggøres?
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftTransgenic Research
ISSN0962-8819
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 1 apr. 2019

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