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Journal of Environmental Law Advance Access originally published online on October 9, 2009
Journal of Environmental Law 2009 21(3):469-482; doi:10.1093/jel/eqp028
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Twenty-first Century Novel: Regulating Nanotechnologies{dagger}

Robert Lee and Elen Stokes*

*Cardiff Law School and ESRC Research Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS) Cardiff University (leerg{at}cardiff.ac.uk).


  Abstract

The Twenty-Seventh Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP) considers controls over novel materials in the environment, focusing largely though not exclusively on nanomaterials. The Report concludes that notwithstanding the capacity of existing regulations to address risks posed by nanomaterials, at present they are poorly adapted to do so. This article reviews the scope of existing regulations and looks at how these might be modified in the light of RCEP proposals. It identifies areas of imprecision in those proposals which may need to be addressed in order to produce a cohesive regulatory structure.

Key Words: regulation • risk • nanotechnology • chemical safety

{dagger}The Twenty-Seventh Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution – Novel Materials in the Environment: The Case of Nanotechnology


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