Problematika regulacije genetički modificiranih proizvoda
Issues regarding the Regulation of genetically modified Products

Summary/Abstract: Using The White Paper (by which the EU has been trying to help the CEEC countries to bring their legislative activities in line with the EU regulation), the author looks into the issues of the regulation of genetically modified products as one of the high-risk areas and into the ways how to minimise these risks. The essay includes a review of the existing regulations and an analysis of the changes in the political and economic circumstances that require the corresponding changes in the existing by-laws. The prime movers in the arena in which the GM products policy is designed are scattered intercontinentally: the multinational corporations of the US agro-industrial complex, the individual farmers and their associations on both sides of the Atlantic, the European agro-industrial businesses and governments. The disagreement among these protagonists was made apparent during the process preceding the adoption of the Protocol on Bio-security, envisaged as the framework for the new regulation. The communique of the EU Commission as a sequel to the Cartagena Protocol on Bio-security illustrates EU’s approach to the application of the caution principle which is particularly appropriate in the situations in which science is not able to take in all the risks connected with the GM products. The process of the modification of the EU regulation on GMP is an indication of the complexity of the interests involved. This is the reason the process has not been completed. However, this does not justify the delay in the launching of this process in Croatia which could use the regulation of other countries, briefly summarized at the end of the essay.

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