Editorial
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Tade Matthias Spranger
Abstract
With its recently enforced Act on the Reform of the Law on Genetical Engineering, the German Government regulated the so-called coexistence of genetically modified crops with other forms of farming, i.e. conventional and organic farming. The new provisions aim at protecting organic and conventional farming from the supposedly dangerous or hazardous effects of genetically modified crops. By establishing this unbalanced legal framework, the German Legislator not only breaks with basic principles of the law of torts (regarding liability and the burden of proof), it also violates various obligations arising from EC law. Matthias Herdegen’s in-depth analysis presents the most elaborated scrutiny of these manifold legal issues so far. It will therefore foster the ongoing debate on the national and international level.
© Walter de Gruyter
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Articles in the same Issue
- Editorial
- The Coexistence of Genetically Modified Crops with Other Forms of Farming: The Regulation by EU Member States in the Light of EC Law
- Use of Genetic Test Information in Life Insurance: An Evaluation of Different Regulatory Models
- The International Treatment of Biological Material as Intellectual Property
- Application of the ‘Precautionary Principle’ in the 2000 Biosafety Protocol to the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity
- The new EU Regulatory Framework for GM Food (Part I) Procedural aspects: safety assessment, authorisation and administrative review
- Regulation on Agricultural Genetically Modified Organisms in Australia
- Biotechnology Law in The Socialist Republic of Vietnam
