Obstacles in the legal regulation of nanomaterials

The legal regulation of nanosciences and nanotechnologies has been hindered at the same time by scientific and technical challenges as well as factors associated with legal complexity. 

9 For more specific details about the risks, we can refer to the expert report by the French agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (ANSES) les nanomateriaux effets sur la santi de I homme et sur I environnement, July 2006 and no. 96 of the National Consultative Ethics Committee for health and life sciences Questions ethiques posees par les nanosciences, les nanotechnologies et la sante, February 2007. 

10 Note that the law can be shown concisely such as a system of rules of behavior, sanctioned by the state, forming a social regulation. 

11 NBIC for nanotechnologies (N), biotechnologies (B), computer science (I) and cognitive 

13 We do not cover the regulatory actions orientated toward promoting nanotechnologies and in particular the activities involved in the construction of a center of excellence or even the actions favoring industrial innovation. 

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