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Beggars can’t be choosers: has the EU’s GMO compromise outsourced moral...
The compromise (official minutes of the Meeting concerned reveal very little detail; more is available here) between the EU Member States on the market authorisation for GMOs has been condemned by...
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Thank you for not displaying. Objections to tobacco display ban go up in smoke.
I have previously referred to the display ban case which Philip Morris took to the EFTA Court. I have only just recently stumbled across the eventual holding of the court which had referred the case to...
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Not on my soil! The Council of the EU compromise on national vetoes to GMO...
The Council has published its first-reading position on a draft directive granting member states more flexibility to decide whether or not they wish to cultivate genetically modified organisms(GMOs) on...
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That sucks: CJEU on science, testing, and laboratories in Dyson.
At first sight, it may seem a bit nerdy to report on Dyson, Case T-544/13. Yet (pun alert) once the dust settled on the judgment, the case in my view reveals quite a lot on how the CJEU sees the role...
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Biocides rebuke teaches EC to honour dates, and not to use Impact assessment...
The CJEU (General Court) sided with Sweden in T-521/14, concerning the failure, by the Commission, to adopt measures concerning the specification of scientific criteria for the determination of...
View ArticleNow you see me, now you don’t. The CJEU on the precautionary principle in...
Hang on a minute. Were not the EU and its Member States supposed to be precaution obsessed? Don’t the EU and its Member States alike adopt bans on all things GMO for no other reason than that they...
View ArticleMicro and nanoplastics pollution. The European Union shifting into gear.
Update 10 January 2019 the final report is out here. Social scientists will be particularly interested in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, where the report takes a holistic view of risk management. There are...
View ArticleFrench Court annuls market authorisation of Roundup. Contrary to public...
In March 2017, France’s ANSES, the relevant food, environment, and occupational health and safety agency, approved Monsanto’s Roundup Pro 360. That authorisation has now been annulled by the Courts at...
View ArticleGhostbusters and the Marshmallow Man. The European Commission covert...
I have reported before on the innovation principle, the industry efforts behind it and the European Commission response to same. I have linked our initial paper as well as media and other reports in an...
View ArticleThe innovation principle’s continued journey.
A short update on the innovation principle‘s continued (corporate-sponsored, let’s be frank) journey. Thank you first of all prof Maria Lee for signalling the UK’s planned introduction of an...
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