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- Title
Working Group Discusses Options for an Instrument on Liability and Redress.
- Authors
Tsioumani, Elsa
- Abstract
The article discusses a meeting of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety's Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts on Liability and Redress, held from February 19 through 23, 2007 in Montreal, Quebec, which focused on drafting a synthesis of positions on issues such as liability, claims and capacity-building measures for the protocol, which is to regulate the use and handling of genetically modified organisms. Time limits and financial limits to liability were addressed. The question of a special tribunal for the settlement of claims was also discussed.
- Subjects
BIOSAFETY; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; RISK assessment in genetic engineering; LEGAL liability; INTERNATIONAL law; GENETIC transformation; GENETIC recombination; GENETIC engineering
- Publication
Environmental Policy & Law, 2007, Vol 37, Issue 4, p284
- ISSN
0378-777X
- Publication type
Article