试论风险预防原则

On the Precautionary Principle

风险预防原则是国际环境法近二十几年中最具创新性,最具影响力,且最重要的新兴概念。可以说,风险预防原则是正在形成之中的国际习惯法规则。虽然国际社会关于风险预防原则的概念并没有达成统一意见,但其都蕴涵着同一个本质,即当有环境议题发生时,不应以欠缺科学明确性作为限制必要措施实行、防治环境灾害的理由。在实施中,风险预防原则一般应受到比例原则和成本受益分析原则的限制。风险预防原则的实施应与其针对危险的范围和后果成比例,而且在适用时一般应考虑到相关社会和经济因素。

The precautionary principle is the most creative,the most influential and the most important newly developing concept in the international environment law in the past 20 years.Generally speaking,the precautionary principle is developing international customary law.Although there is no agreement on the concept of the precautionary principle in international community,different versions of the principle has the same essence,that is when environmental problems take place,the scientific uncertainty could not be...