유전자변형생물체에 관한 나고야 추가의정서의 민사법적 책임의 한계

• 영문명: Limitation of Civil Liability and Legal Norms of Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
• 발행기관: 이화여자대학교 생명의료법연구소
• 저자명: 방재호(Bang, Jae-Ho) 문상혁(Moon, Sang Hyuk)
• 간행물 정보: 『생명윤리정책연구(제 9권 제 3호 이전)』제7권 제1호, 31~58쪽, 전체 28쪽
• 주제분류: 법학 > 법학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.06.30

영문 초록

「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 genetically 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.

목차

Ⅰ. 서론

Ⅱ. 바이오안전성에 관한 카르타헤나의정서의 책임 및 구제에 관한 추가의정서

Ⅲ. 「책임 및 구제에 관한 추가의정서」에 따른 민사법적 책임의 검토

Ⅳ. 결론

키워드

유전자변형생물체 카르타헤나 의정서 바이오안전성에 관한 카르타헤나의정서의 책임 및 구제에 관한 나고야-쿠알라룸푸르 추가의정서 불법행위 생물다양성에 관한 협약 LMO(Living Modified Organisms) GMO(Genetically Modified Organism) Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety torts liability Convention on Biological Diversity(CBD)