Challenges for the Traceability of NGTs From a Legal Perspective© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (11/2022)
The regulation of new genomic techniques (NGTs) by European gene echnology law is not only of scientific-academic value, but also affects quite considerable economic interests. While the use of the corresponding technologies in the “red sector” – i.e. for human medical purposes – is still viewed with restraint in view of the risks to human health that are to be ruled out, the hoped-for multi-billion revenues in the “green sector” of plant biotechnologymean that less restraint tends to be exercised here.
PlasticFreeDanube: Composition of macro-plastic waste in and along the Danube River© Lehrstuhl fĂĽr Abfallverwertungstechnik und Abfallwirtschaft der Montanuniversität Leoben (11/2020)
The reliable estimates are essential to developing measures to reduce plastic pollution and to make successes measurable and visible. For this reason, the cross-border project "PlasticFreeDanube" (PFD), which is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund within the framework of Interreg Slovakia-Austria, aims to gain new knowledge on this topic for the Danube.
Legal Protection of Biodiversity of Forests in Poland© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (2/2020)
Biodiversity constitutes the special value of all animated nature. It can be described as a variety of life forms with all their changeability at the micro- and macroscopic levels. It is the sumof all genes, species, habitats and natural processes that are the essence of existence on earth.
The Environment as Legal Concept in the Law of the European Union© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (11/2019)
How does European Union law define the concept of the environment? Different, partly contrary regulatory purposes, conceptual understandings and mechanisms permeate both primary and secondary EU environmental law. It mixes anthropocentric and non anthropocentric legal purposes with causal, media-related and vital regulatory approaches.
Aged GMO Legislation Meets New Genome Editing Techniques© Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (2/2017)
CRISPR-Cas9 is by far the most popular genome editing technique today and it has revolutionized the editing of organisms’ genomes. It hasnever beeneasier, faster and cheaper to modify genes of organisms and as a result to change their phenotype.