The Commission’s New Approach to the Cultivation of Genetically Modified Organisms
© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (12/2010)
The Commission has proposed to legitimise the renationalization of the cultivation of GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) accepting the request of a group of Member States who raised concerns at the Environment Council of June 2009 regarding the EU-wide decisions on GMO cultivation. Based on subsidiarity grounds, they requested the Commission give the freedom to decide on the cultivation of GM plants to both national and local authorities.
© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (12/2010)
The Commission has proposed to legitimise the renationalization of the cultivation of GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) accepting the request of a group of Member States who raised concerns at the Environment Council of June 2009 regarding the EU-wide decisions on GMO cultivation. Based on subsidiarity grounds, they requested the Commission give the freedom to decide on the cultivation of GM plants to both national and local authorities.
The Regulatory Challenge of Animal Cloning for Food – The Risks of Risk Regulation in the European Union
© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (3/2010)
In this article I describe and analyse the current regulatory developments at EU level concerning the marketing of foods produced from cloned animals. As they are on the verge of commercialisation in countries outside the EU, especially in the United States, foods from cloned animals are likely to reach the European consumers in the foreseeable future. Yet at the moment there is no specific legal framework that regulates such products in the EU.
© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (3/2010)
In this article I describe and analyse the current regulatory developments at EU level concerning the marketing of foods produced from cloned animals. As they are on the verge of commercialisation in countries outside the EU, especially in the United States, foods from cloned animals are likely to reach the European consumers in the foreseeable future. Yet at the moment there is no specific legal framework that regulates such products in the EU.
Inferences on the tolerance of some forest woody angiosperms in an urban polluted environment
© Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (6/2009)
Urban settings represent some of the most humanly crowded and polluted environments. The genotype effect of five species that show tolerance to urban air pollution in Thessaloniki, Greece was investigated. The study was conducted in pairs of trees that were selected as growing under the same spacing and micro-environment, but showing noticeably different degrees of adaptation to air pollution (‘tolerant’ and ‘sensitive’ trees).
© Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (6/2009)
Urban settings represent some of the most humanly crowded and polluted environments. The genotype effect of five species that show tolerance to urban air pollution in Thessaloniki, Greece was investigated. The study was conducted in pairs of trees that were selected as growing under the same spacing and micro-environment, but showing noticeably different degrees of adaptation to air pollution (‘tolerant’ and ‘sensitive’ trees).
EC Law and Biodiversity
© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (6/2007)
The term biodiversity itself was not coined until the 1980s, when it was popularised by the eminent Harvard biologist Wilson. Biodiversity entails at the macro level ecosystemic diversity (ecosystems and landscapes), specific diversity (the species of plants, animals and micro-organisms that surround us) and at the micro level it includes genetic diversity.
© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (6/2007)
The term biodiversity itself was not coined until the 1980s, when it was popularised by the eminent Harvard biologist Wilson. Biodiversity entails at the macro level ecosystemic diversity (ecosystems and landscapes), specific diversity (the species of plants, animals and micro-organisms that surround us) and at the micro level it includes genetic diversity.
Discussions on Directive 2004/35 Concerning Environmental Liability
© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (8/2005)
Directive 2004/35 on environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage which will have to be transposed into national law by April 2007, constitutes the provisional end to some thirty years of discussions on liability at EC level.
© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (8/2005)
Directive 2004/35 on environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage which will have to be transposed into national law by April 2007, constitutes the provisional end to some thirty years of discussions on liability at EC level.
