Housing: demographic and environmental trends
How can the housing be adapted to an ageing population and to meet the challenge of climate change?
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Regulating biotechnology (296 KB , PDF)
EC Directives on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been criticised as too precautionary and placing the European biotechnology industry at a competitive disadvantage. Measures to resolve this are underway, but need to avoid conflict with a major parallel exercise to set biotechnology standards.
This POSTnote considers how far the standard-setting process is in step with the gathering pace of biotechnology deregulation.
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Regulating biotechnology (296 KB , PDF)
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