The precautionary principle says the company should make informed decisions every step of the way.
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The precautionary principle, which calls for extra prudence in areas of scientific uncertainty, also applies.
He also recommends 'the precautionary principle' which would mean not permitting telecommunications masts near schools, nurseries and family homes.
Transparent collaboration between companies, conservation NGOs and government agencies seems to be the way to operationalize the precautionary principle.
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The precautionary principle in science is either so vague as to be meaningless or a disastrous recipe for stagnation.
Perhaps there is now also a need for an international standard on how to use the precautionary principle in decision-making.
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While the precautionary principle enjoys considerable support from environmental activists, politicians, and indeed, some scientists, as a law, it is inherently vague.
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Contamination of what is billed as science-based risk assessment by activist researchers and by the precautionary principle has become a pervasive problem.
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By contrast, the African countries, with Malaysia and some Latin American countries, favour a restrictive protocol based on the so-called precautionary principle.
Given the level of uncertainty and the political and ethical challenges mentioned above, the international community feels it is critical to uphold the precautionary principle.
Among Lib Dem demands is that the precautionary principle should be used so beams from masts do not fall on schools, playing fields or hospitals.
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Thus the precautionary principle requires a landscape approach to scientific assessment.
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The expensive lesson from E coli O104 seems to be going unheeded, with Euro-regulators preferring their perverse, populism-driven application of the precautionary principle to a scientific approach to food safety.
The commission's argument is that too often, we don't know what is there before it is too late - and EU nations are committed to using the precautionary principle in such cases.
While studying for my course in Environmental Economics (at the nth moment and the night before my Environmental Policy exam, I might add) I came across what is commonly known as the Precautionary Principle.
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The precautionary principle states that, if there is uncertainty regarding the effects of exposure to an agent, the burden of proof that exposure does not cause harm falls on those who utilize the agent.
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This morning I had the good fortune to chair a small roundtable discussion on applying the precautionary principle in the context of large business projects such as those undertaken by the extractives industries and agriculture.
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As has been thoroughly documented by Lawrence Kogan of the Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development, the marine environmental protection requirements emanating from LOST are rooted in the European-derived "precautionary principle, " a legal tenet requiring assurance that a proposed action will cause no harm to the environment before proceeding.
The Commerce Committee should have its own concerns about the prospective compromise of U.S. technologies and the Treaty's other detrimental effects on our competitiveness (such as its socialist, redistributionist agenda, its imposition of the Luddite "precautionary principle" which precludes innovation unless it can be proven harmless and its adoption of European, rather than U.S., industrial standards).
Furthermore, in practice invocation of the precautionary principle focuses attention solely on the possibility of harm, often ignoring information about the dose to which people are exposed, avoiding consideration of benefits of the agent in question and whether safer substitutes are available, and giving greater weight to studies that appear to indicate a hazard, even when these studies may be of poorer quality.
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