Austria's biotechnology regulation: from ‘virtual releases’ to public protest

Markus Mikl and Helge Torgersen

Science and Public Policy, 1996, vol. 23, issue 3, 195-200

Abstract: Modern biotechnology developed rather late in Austria. After several years of negotiations, Austria enacted a special biosafety law only in 1995. The Competent Authorities are the Ministries of Health and of Science, although the Federal Environment Agency exercises considerable influence. For the approval of releases, Austria implicitly takes ‘secondary effects’ into consideration, and GMO products are subject to a criterion of ‘social unsustainability’, that is a kind of Fourth Hurdle. Public information disclosure is not common practice for regulators, though they intend to make GMO regulation more open. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 1996
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