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2. See Communication from the European Commission to the European Parliament, Counsel and the European Economic and Social Committee. COM (2008) 366 final, Regulatory Aspects of nanomaterials, p 11: “Current legislation covers in principle the potential health, safety and environmental risks in relation to nanomaterials.”
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5. This expression has been used many times during the national debate on nanotechnology’s governance which has been organized by the French National Committee on Public Debate (CNDP) in 2009 and 2010. See http://debatpublic-nano.org/informer/bilan_debat.html , especially p 24. An interesting sociological and political analysis of this concept can be found in Brice Laurent, “Les politiques des nanotechnologies. Pour un traitement démocratique d’une science émergente, Charles Léopold Mayer Editions, Sept 2010, p 26 et s