Legislative Obligations of Member States under Cartagena Protocol and the Extent to which the Islamic Republic of Iran has Adhered to such Commitments
Cartagena protocol on biosafety was ratified in Montreal, Canada, on January 29- 2000. The protocol is an International binding instrument that sets forth strict legislative commitments for member states. As of one year from ratification of Cartagena protocol, Iran’s government vested its Environmen...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fas |
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Allameh Tabataba'i University Press
2015-03-01
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| Series: | Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī |
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| Online Access: | https://qjpl.atu.ac.ir/article_670_0c568188ef630147c8825bffa0f697b7.pdf |
| Summary: | Cartagena protocol on biosafety was ratified in Montreal, Canada, on January 29- 2000. The protocol is an International binding instrument that sets forth strict legislative commitments for member states. As of one year from ratification of Cartagena protocol, Iran’s government vested its Environmental Protection Agency with authority to sign the protocol upon which Iran’s biosafety law subsequently passed the congress in 2003. This paper strive to to deliberate Iran’s legislative commitments under the protocol, the measures are taken by Iran’s government to comply with requirements have been prescribed therein and shall further makes assessment of such measures. The paper also evaluates the extent to which Iran has adhered to general and specific legislative commitments are laid down by the protocol and shall further scrutinizes in critical fashion the various articles have been appointed in Iran’s Biosafety law. It’s seems that Iran’s accession to the Protocol was hasty and without proper evaluation of ensuing implications; Also the government by passing the Biosafety law has obliged to commitments which are beyond the Protocol. |
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| ISSN: | 2345-6116 2476-6216 |