LATEST LEGAL NEWS

THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED THE DRAFT OF THE HUMAN BIOBANKS INFORMATION SECURITY REGULATION

The field of human biobanks will be governed by the Act of Human Biobanks (“Biobanks Act”) after its promulgation on February 3, 2010 in Taiwan. According to Article 13 of the Biobanks Act, a biobank owner should establish its directive rules based on the regulation of information security of biobanks announced by the competent authority. Thus the Department of Health announced the draft of the Human Biobanks Information Security Regulation (“Regulation”) for the due process requirement....[more]

TAIWAN´S ADOPTION OF " INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION ACT " TO ENCOURAGE BUSINESSES TO INVEST IN R&D AND ENHANCE THE ADDED-VALUE IN INDUSTRY

Facing competitive challenges of knowledge economy and globalization, and continue to "Statute for Upgrading Industries", Taiwan´s Legislative Yuan officially April 16, 2010 Third Reading, " Industrial Innovation Act", Taiwan entered a new generation of industry innovation era in legal system...[more]

EXECUTIVE YUAN HAS PROPOSED DRAFT TO JURISTIC PERSON ACT

Nowadays public affairs have gained more and more attention from the public, and increasingly request the government to meet their needs. In order to do so, the government has been seeking further assistance from the juristic person, by establishing juristic person to provide public services and meet the citizens’ request. Over the past the role and the scale of juristic person have expanded gradually, the general rules within the Civil Law could no longer cope with the complexity and magnitude of the juristic person. Thus, the government has proposed the draft to Juristic Person Act, as a means of strengthening current regulations for establishment and management of the juristic person, and supporting the juristic person in continuing to provide services for the welfare of the people....[more]

TO PROMOTE THE CHINA-TAIWAN MUTUAL REORGANIZATION AND COLLABORATION IN BIOMEDICAL FIELD WITH PUBLIC/PRIVATE SECTORS COOPERATION

EXECUTIVE YUAN’S “FOUR EMERGING INTELLIGENT INDUSTRIES PLAN” LAUNCHED

Earlier this year, the Executive Yuan adopted the plan to promote “the Four Emerging Intelligent Industries,” including cloud computing, intelligent vehicles, intelligent green buildings, and industrialization of invention patents. The government will invest at least NT$15 billion over the next six years....[more]

THE NEW PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION ACT PASSED INTO LAW

Personal Data Protection Act had been passed into law by the Legislative Yuan on April 27, 2010, after concerns over potential restrictions on press freedom in the earlier version were smoothed out....[more]

A STUDY ON THE IMPACTS ON GLOBAL R&D SYSTEM AND THE MEASURES MAY BE TAKEN IN RESPONSE TO THE EUROPEAN NEWLY -EMERGED GOVERNANCE APPROACH TO NANOTECHNOLOGY

Nanotechnology, a micro platform technique that attracts huge investment in its development among international community, is leading human being to make progress in a radical way. However, just like other new-merging technologies, we are not, at the current stage, fully aware of the adverse-effect may be brought by using nanotechnology and the products therefrom....[more]

THE LEGAL TREND ON PERSONAL PRIVACY OF HEALTH INFORMATION IN US AND CANADA

As the benefits of electronic health information exchange may be found available in emergency procedure, disasters prevention, treatment improvement, medical errors and duplication abatement, tracking for protection, and safety enhancement, many countries make efforts in establishing and advancing national electronic health information exchange system....[more]

INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE DATA PROTECTION LAW FOR ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATIONS

In recent years, in virtue of the emergence of the activity of protecting Private Rights, the issue of protecting personal information has also been raised and become flourishing. However, most of the discussions about this issue only focused on how to collect, to process, to use, and to offer the personal information by the private department; rather than paid much attention to what are the standards should be adopted by public department....[more]

ON THE TRANSNATIONAL REGULATION MODEL OF GMO IN EUROPEAN UNION - THE GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Due to the diffusing and circulating nature of biotechnology, their risks are now becoming international issues, and the genetic modification (GM) technique is among the most controversial ones....[more]

THE IMPACT OF THE CARTAGENA PROTOCOL ON BIOSAFETY AND THE KYOTO PROTOCOL ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED TREES

Genetically modified technology has become more advanced during the past twenty years. Compared with the successful experience of the commercialization of genetically modified crops since ten years ago, the industrial application of genetically modified trees has a cutting-edge development....[more]