The precautionary principle is not a useful substitute for scientific understanding.

The precautionary principle prescribes action, regardless of cost, to prevent all of them.

These are the facts of life that the precautionary principle tells us to ignore.

But no precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee.

Think, for example, of the environment or public health, where the precautionary principle guides decision making.

The precautionary principle and the ecosystem approach are fundamental to the conservation and management of fishing resources.

At that point, the precautionary principle might suggest that we take drastic action to stop burning fossil fuels.

The precautionary principle is the better known of the two, and increasingly figures in environmental and health legislation.

Prevention Preventive management measures to be implemented on selected ecosystems in the presence of information gaps (precautionary principle)

As a result of widespread reliance on the precautionary principle, doomsday scenarios have come to dominate discussion of climate change.

I will conclude my statement with a reference to a legal concept that needs to be strengthened the precautionary principle.

What is wrong with the precautionary principle? It appears to be a statement of the obvious unacceptable disasters require extraordinary counter measures.

It was urged that a stronger application of the precautionary principle be made, which would therefore proscribe such shipments in accordance with SIDS' goals.

(c) Guidance for the use of precautionary statements and precautionary pictograms

Precautionary Absurdity

Some of the codes identified also incorporate more practically oriented obligations relating to the conduct of professional activities, including specific reference to the precautionary principle.

Amend the title to read as follows PRECAUTIONARY STATEMENTS AND PRECAUTIONARY PICTOGRAMS

You obviously do what the precautionary principle suggests, you try to anticipate it, but after anticipating it, you constantly asses it, not just once, but eternally.

A3.7 Precautionary pictograms

Economists call that precautionary saving.

e. A preliminary assessment of the likely economic, social, cultural and environmental impact, including potential risks and fair and equitable benefit sharing in a context that respects the precautionary principle

All these disasters and many others still to be imagined are possible, and many of them are unacceptable. The precautionary principle prescribes action, regardless of cost, to prevent all of them.

Precautionary types would reacquaint us with our humble animal origins, from which we have strayed for much too long, whereas exponents of the proactionary principle would expedite our departure from our evolutionary past.

A3.5 Structure of the precautionary statements matrix

A4.3.2.2 GHS label elements, including precautionary statements

For example, the EU has long been committed to the precautionary principle, which prevents products that may harm human health from entering the EU market even if the scientific evidence is not yet conclusive.

A3.6 Matrix of precautionary statements by hazard class category

PRINCETON Many people who advocate draconian measures to counteract climate change base their argument on the so called precautionary principle, which holds that when a possible future disaster would be unacceptably severe, action to prevent it is imperative.

According to the WHO, the precautionary principle is a risk management policy applied in circumstances with a high degree of scientific uncertainty, reflecting the need to take action for a potentially serious risk without awaiting the results of scientific research.

In order to ensure effective protection for the marine environment from harmful effects which may arise from activities in the Area, the Authority and sponsoring States shall apply a precautionary approach, as reflected in principle 15 of the Rio Declaration,1 to such activities.

To be sure, the precautionary and proactionary principles remain relatively marginal to mainstream political discourse.

The precautionary measures instituted by the Public Prosecutor's Office were designed to protect potential victims.

Right now the default position about when a new technology comes along, is we people talk about the precautionary principle, which is very common in Europe, which says, basically, Don't do anything. When you meet a new technology, stop, until it can be proven that there's no harm.

Here, with input from South Korea, it is developing plans for a Precautionary Credit Line (PCL).

He suggested that precautionary steps be considered during construction, such as low cost lightning rod technologies.

This will ensure that meaningful examination and appropriate precautionary action can be taken over the next year.

Such principles can lead to the identification of both near term precautionary actions and medium term initiatives.

Prevent harm as the best method of environmental protection and, when knowledge is limited, apply a precautionary approach.

(viii) Article 38 of the International Law Association Berlin Rules on Water Resources, 2004, Precautionary management of aquifers

Household income must rise, and, with more ample provision of social security, insurance, and services, precautionary savings should fall.

And, sensing all of this, companies are beginning to deploy the massive precautionary cash balances that they have accumulated.

They need time to build a social safety net capable of encouraging Chinese households to reduce their precautionary saving.

Another delegation suggested that the precautionary approach to fisheries management be applied in the absence of conclusive scientific information.

According to this author, there should be four qualitative principles (a) the principle of origin, (b) the principle of source, (c) the principle of residence and (d) the principle of nationality.

There is no reason to classify the principle of abrogation, if this be the general principle, other than as a legal principle.