한미FTA가 국내 GMO관련 법제도에 미치는 영향

The Influence of Kor-US FTA on GMOs Legal Policy on Korea

There are several views about Kor-Us FTA. These are not clear in the influence on the future of Kor-US relationship, especially economic and political situations. After making the Kor-US FTA, GMOs became new issue because of the understanding of GMOs between US and Korea even though GMOs were not the subject of Kor-US FTA. Public concerns are whether GMOs will be imported much more than it has at any time in the past. However, this is not important. More important is the future influence of GMOs legal policy in Korea after the ratification of 'The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety'. Several issues will be appeared. First, whether or not the revision of the safety assessment of GMOs is possible for the further protection. Second, the existing GMOs labeling system is sufficient for the public information. Third, whether or not our existing GMOs-related system is the technical barriers to Kor-US trade. In actuality, the US government have demanded the deregulation of GMOs in the past several years and our government has approved these demands. Therefore, what we have to concern is whether the maintenance of existing GMOs regulations and further protection are possible. For this, we should prepare the human and material resources for carrying out the legal system on GMOs. In above, we get all the necessary data for taking proper measures when the conflict on GMOs between US and Korea occurs.