Theoretical and Legal Issues of Ensuring Biological Safety of the Russian Federation
https://doi.org/10.17803/1994-1471.2020.113.4.187-194
Abstract
The paper is devoted to the study of modern theoretical and legal issues of ensuring biological safety in the context of the discussion of the draft Federal law No. 850485-7 “On the biological safety of the Russian Federation”. According to the results of a critical assessment of the draft law, in addition to the direct threats and risks analysis, the authors highlight the features (specifics) of biological safety problems from the organizational and legal point of view and from the theoretical positions of environmental law. The conclusion is proved that, in the proposed edition, the draft law has insufficient effectiveness in terms of a real, practical, immediate and effective reaction to solving a set of problems of ensuring biological safety, response to a biological threat. The authors propose a number of theoretical conclusions and practical recommendations aimed at optimizing the draft law, including the need to take into account potential challenges that are probabilistic in connection with new biotechnologies, terrorist threats, environmental problems, climate change, in strategic planning documents and the law on biological safety. There is the need to expand and specify measures to identify possible threats, their classification, attribution, and the response procedure and applied activities.
Keywords
biological safety,
strategic planning,
draft law,
environmental protection,
ensuring environmental safety,
biological risk,
biological hazard,
danger,
risk,
pathogenic organisms
Supporting agencies: The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project № 18-29-14034.
About the Authors
V. B. Agafonov
Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dr. Sci. (Law), Professor, Department of Environmental and Natural
Resources Law
ul. Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya, d. 9, Moscow, Russia, 125993
N. G. Zhavoronkova
Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Dr. Sci. (Law), Professor, Head of the Department of Environmental and
Natural Resources Law
ul. Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya, d. 9, Moscow, Russia, 125993
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Agafonov V.B., Zhavoronkova N.G. Theoretical and Legal Issues of Ensuring Biological Safety of the Russian Federation. Actual Problems of Russian Law. 2020;15(4):187-194. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17803/1994-1471.2020.113.4.187-194
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