Objective and presentations: Specialists will be invited in sociology, biology, microbiology, biotechnology, nuclear energy, environmental and liability laws (with lawyers, jurists), ecology, ecotoxicology, chemistry, geography, agronomy, medicine, psychology... because they are part of multidisciplinary centers studying these risks on technologies and biotechnologies and pesticides.
This will be under the presidency of Corinne Lepage, former CRIIGEN president and present vice-president for the environmental affairs of the European Parliament, former minister of ecology in France and present reviewer of the directive 2001/18 on GMOs, working for a new directive.
How to get transparency in assessment, as well as how to include the civil society in the assessment of GMOs, nanotechnologies and nuclear energy, will be debated issues.
The goal is how to better reach a «Sustainability and holistic assessment of technologies and biotechnologies» together with the civil society and taking into account sustainable environment and health.
The same question will be asked to all speakers, on all topics: «How can we achieve a better sustainable environment by assessing modern technologies and biotechnologies?»
The lectures will focus on the present risk assessments of technologies and biotechnologies,
and legal/policy instruments to achieve holistic assessments for a sustainable environment, with the participation of the public. There will be poster sessions and presentations. Practical examples are welcomed. This will be used to implement and suggest new international regulations, starting with the European legislation.