Genetiškai modifikuotų organizmų naudojimo politika ir valdymas bei prognozuojamas poveikis Lietuvos saugomoms teritorijoms

Abstract

Modern biotechnology is a very topical and new enough subject in Lithuania, therefore there is no one answer about GMO making damage to nature or to people‘s health. Brand new transgenic organisms, better known as genetically modificied organisms (GMOs), have been created employing the methods of genetic engineering. Biotechnology is based on manipulation outside the boundaries of a cell, therefore it is considered to be a new and innovative type of technology, extracting selected genes from one organism and inserting them into another in order to make the required material or another organism characterized by distinguished features. GMO‘s policy and control is one of the most advanced environmental sectors in EU because for the relevant organisation of actions not only a good law base is needed, but also other ordinary procedures, hight level scholarly consultation, complex laboratory equipment, a high-priced research. Lithuania, like other EU countries, follow EU laws and according to them, Lithuania passes and coordinates its own laws, paying attention to danger to people‘s health and create a biosafety system in Lithuania. Social and economic policy and law changes have a direct impact on the national regulation of GMO usage. Globalization directly influences GMO pervasion in Lithuania and the policy of EU determine GMO usage and control law‘s administrative systems‘ creating in Lithuania. However, a difficult regulation of GMO, negative employee’s of preserved territories, social organizations and users opinions about GMOs – reasons which I think subserve that GMO would not be legitimate in Lithuanian protected areas. In future in Lithuania, when all laws, having to do with GMO, will be passed and coordinated, Lithuanian protected areas will remain except as a territory without GMO.