This position paper outlines the case for why new genetic engineering techniques should be fully covered by existing EU regulations governing GMOs, including risk assessment, labelling, and monitoring.
Briefing: save Kresna gorge
A spectacular nature haven in southwestern Bulgaria, home to twice as many butterfly species as the whole of the UK and protected by EU nature laws, is under threat from an EU-funded motorway from Sofia to Greece. This briefing analyses the disastrous impacts the motorway would have on local nature and communities, highlights viable alternative …
Assessment of the public consultation on the proposed Multilateral Investment Court
At the beginning of 2017 the European Commission conducted a public consultation on the proposed Multilateral Investment Court (MIC). This briefing scrutnises the public consultation and finds that the scope, questions and methodology were highly inadequate and prevented a broad range of stakeholders from expressing their views and that the Commission misrepresented the consultation results, …
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The Multilateral Investment Court Locking in ISDS
Ten reasons why the EU’s proposal for a Multilateral Investment Court doesn’t fix a fundamentally flawed system The European Commission is planning to establish a so-called Multilateral Investment Court (MIC), a new international court where corporations can sue governments for laws and regulations that harm their profits. The court is supposed to replace the controversial …
Open Letter to Environment Ministers
Friends of the Earth Europe, together with an alliance of European-wide civil society organisations, has sent an open letter to Environment Ministers from all EU Member States urging them to support more ambitious measures ahead of final negotiations on amendments to EU waste legislation. We call for binding reduction targets for marine litter and food …
Richterbund Statement on Multilateral Investment Court System
English translation of the German Association of Judges opinion on the proposal for the Multilateral Investment Court system (MIC). This translation was provided by EuroMinds Linguistics and has not been verified by the Deutsche Richterbund. Only the German original is an authentic document of the Deutsche Richterbund and can be found here: http://www.drb.de/stellungnahmen/2017/multilateraler-gerichtshof-fuer-investitionsstreitigkeiten.html
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