General
With a view to rendering the various and emerging components of international regulation of biotechnology more coherent and to developing appropriate framework conditions within WTO law, the project will pursue the following objectives: - Identify the relevant human rights values applicable to the field of genetic engineering (including human dignity, food security, food safety and the right to health in existing and potential instruments).
- Analyse existing regulations on intellectual property and competition in light of the values identified and, if necessary, reshape rules and their application, in particular in the field of patent law and other forms of intellectual property protection.
- Analyse existing regulations in the field of non-tariff barriers in GATT, sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) and technical barriers to trade (TBT) in relation to genetic engineering and seek to develop appropriate disciplines and criteria for risk assessment and risk management.
- Identify, for genetic engineering as it relates to trade regulation, appropriate levels of governance (global, regional or domestic) and seek to develop new procedural approaches to cover approval, protection and trade of genetically modified products.
The project will first undertake a stocktaking and then proceed to address the three objectives in three different and interdisciplinary research efforts, taking into account ethics, economics and law. The project has implications for almost all the other IPs and research will be undertaken in consultation in particular with IP4 (Human Rights) and IP5 (Agriculture).
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