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Bioethics Policy Studies
2013 Volume.7 No. 1 p.31 ~ p.58
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Limitation of Civil Liability and Legal Norms of Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
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Bang Jae-Ho
Moon Sang-Hyuk
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Abstract
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「Additional Protocol regarding Responsibility and Aid」only prescribes a part of the conditions of civil responsibility and delegates the rest to the domestic law, and thus can be said to be a non-contained structure. Thus, this can be said to be applicable only if supplemented by implementing legislation. Therefore, now it is time for Korea to determine the method of
implementing legislation. There are largely three methods to go about the implementation legislation. First is applying the current law, second is legislating a separate special law for genetically modified organisms, and third is applying the combination of special laws prepared separately from the current law. Accordingly, when there is a loss due to a enetically modified organism, the legal concept for responsibility according to the current law can be summarized into product responsibility, environmental policy basic law, contract responsibility, and illegal activity responsibility. First, in case of product responsibility, non-fault responsibility element is introduced for the defect in manufacturing, but fault responsibility element is introduced for design defects or indication defects with the structure where the issue of development risk is evaluated at the stage of defect. Therefore, the product responsibility law is quite inadequate as the legal system to represent the position of the importing country. Also, even if genetically modified organisms are included in the scope of products, it is almost impossible to prove the causal relationship between the design/manufacturing defects for the genetically modified organisms which are products of high-degree science technology and the damage. Second, in case of environment policy law, there is the problem that it cannot be applied to environment pollution damage that occurs outside ‘business site and such.’ Also, for genetically modified organisms, in most case the genetically modified foods are
delivered to the final consumer through many stages of distribution networks. The environment policy law, however, cannot be applied to accidents that occurs while moving from the business site to another. Third, in case of contract responsibility, it is possible to constitute a legal theory of contract responsibility when there is a damage between the corresponding parties. The damage regarding genetically modified organisms, however, is generally the damage to crops of nearby farmers by the farmer growing the genetically modified seeds, or the damage incurred to the consumer after a
complex distribution process. Therefore, in this case it is difficult to constitute a legal theory by the contract responsibility. Fourth, in case of illegal activity responsibility, most information regarding the genetically modified organisms is accumulated by large corporations, and the information is not provided to the victims. Accordingly, the victims in most
cases lack the technical knowledge on the technical area of the science technology, and it is practically impossible for the victim to prove the damage from which the dispute arises. In such cases, the consumer rights may be protected by the legal analysis relieving the burden of proof for such conditions, or by probability theory/preemptive presumption theory, but it poses the concern that it may hinder the legal safety in that the criteria of legal analysis is unclear. Therefore, the application of the current law in the method of implementing legislation of additional protocol is limited. Therefore, in
future, there should be studies on the method of legislating a separate special law or applying the combination of special laws prepared separately from the current law in preparation of the implementing regulations according to Article 12 of 「Additional Protocol for Responsibility and Aid.
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KEYWORD
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LMO(Living Modified Organisms), GMO(Genetically ModifiedOrganism), Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, , Nagoya-KualaLumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, torts liability, Convention on Biological Diversity(CBD)
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