Public Consultation on Proposed Revisions to Norway’s Gene Technology Act: An Analysis of the Consultation Framing, Stakeholder Concerns, and the Integration of Non-Safety Considerations
dc.contributor.author | Kjeldaas, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Antonsen, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Hartley, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Myhr, AI | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-14T09:33:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-07-08 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-02-11T19:51:24Z | |
dc.description.abstract | In Norway, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are regulated through the Gene Technology Act of 1993, which has received international attention for its inclusion of non-safety considerations. In 2017, the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board triggered a process to revise the Act that included a public consultation and resulted in the “Proposal for relaxation.” Using post-structuralist discourse analysis, we critically analyze the premises and processes through which the proposal for relaxation was developed—including the public consultation—to understand the range of stakeholder concerns and how these concerns shaped the final proposal. We find that the proposal does not include all concerns equally. The Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board’s privileging of technological matters and its preference for tier-based regulation skewed the proposal in a way that reduced broader societal concerns to technological definitions and marginalized discussion of the social, cultural, and ethical issues raised by new gene technologies. To prevent such narrowing of stakeholder concerns in the future, we propose Latour’s model for political economy as a tool to gauge the openness of consultations for biotechnology regulation. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Research Council of Norway | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 7643- | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 13(14), article 7643 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3390/su13147643 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 283387 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/128797 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-4849-5685 (Hartley, Sarah) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | MDPI | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | en_GB |
dc.subject | GMO regulation | en_GB |
dc.subject | non-safety considerations | en_GB |
dc.subject | consultation | en_GB |
dc.subject | perplexity | en_GB |
dc.subject | sustainability | en_GB |
dc.subject | ethics | en_GB |
dc.subject | GMOs | en_GB |
dc.subject | genome editing | en_GB |
dc.title | Public Consultation on Proposed Revisions to Norway’s Gene Technology Act: An Analysis of the Consultation Framing, Stakeholder Concerns, and the Integration of Non-Safety Considerations | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-14T09:33:24Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2071-1050 | |
exeter.article-number | ARTN 7643 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from MDPI via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data Availability Statement: Data is contained within the article. See Table A1 Source data for discourse analysis. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2071-1050 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Sustainability | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Sustainability, 13(14) | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-07-05 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-07-08 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-02-14T09:31:43Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-02-14T09:35:23Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2021-07-08 |
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