Government Positions - Europe

Maastricht Treaty on the Euopean Union, Title XVI 1994

NB no web link available (eds) Ref: 31 ILM 247, 285-86 Community policy on the environment...shall be based on the precautionary principle and on the principles that preventive actions should be taken, that environmental damage should as a priority be rectified at source and that the polluter should pay.

Precautionary regulations of GMOs in the European Union: results of a ten-country study