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Overview of Different Approaches to GMO Legislation
Authors: Dusan Dabovic
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The aim of this article is to identify and classify different approaches to legislation on genetically modified organisms, the underlying causes of these approaches, and typical examples of different policies. In this paper the formal-legal method, comparative method, method of text analysis and statistical method were used. In doing so, scientific works in the mentioned area, relevant regulations of the observed state entities, as well as newspaper texts and electronic databases were used. In accordance with the classification of the application of new technologies, especially biotechnology, which can lead to concerns about the effects on human and animal health, as well as on the environment, basic approaches to GMO legislation have been established – from permissive, through cautious, to prohibitive approaches. As the characteristic examples of different approaches, appropriate regulations at the highest level of authority in the US, EU, China, the Russian Federation, as well as in the Republic of Serbia have been analyzed. In addition, in each of these entities, regulations at the lower level of authority were observed, which differently regulate the use of GMOs.