Genetic Technology and Food Safety

The volume gives an overview on how legislators all over the world have come up with different legal solutions for governing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and food security and provides a compact summary of the existing regulations in this field.

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Roland Norer Editor

Genetic Technology and Food Safety

Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law Volume 14

Series Editors Katharina Boele-Woelki, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany Diego P. Fernández Arroyo, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, Sciences Po, France Founding Series Editors Jürgen Basedow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Germany George Bermann, Columbia University School of Law, USA Editorial Board Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris 2, France Giuseppe Franco Ferrari, Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy Toshiyuki Kono, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Marek Safjan, Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg Jorge Sanchez Cordero, Mexican Center of Uniform Law, Mexico Ulrich Sieber, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Germany

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11943

Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé International Academy of Comparative Law

Roland Norer Editor

Genetic Technology and Food Safety

Editor Roland Norer Faculty of Law University of Lucerne Lucerne, Switzerland

ISSN 2214-6881 ISSN 2214-689X (electronic) Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law ISBN 978-3-319-23993-4 ISBN 978-3-319-23995-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23995-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015959016 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Introduction

The topic of Section II.D on environmental law at the occasion of the XIXth International Congress of Comparative Law in Vienna in 2014 was defined as follows: “Genetic technology and food security”. The national reporters thus had the interesting task to analyse the national legislation at the interface between gene