2012-04-30
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Today the European Commission has asked Bulgaria to ensure the correct implementation of Directive 2009/41/EC on activities around genetically modified micro-organisms such as when they are cultured, stored, transported, destroyed or used in any other way. Directive 2009/41/EC requires Member States to ensure that all measures necessary are taken in order to avoid activities around genetically modified micro-organisms having negative consequences on human health and/or the environment.
2011-12-13
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Genetically modified animal feed without GMO labeling is being sold on the Bulgarian market, according to reports of the Public Environmental Center for Sustainable Development/ PECSD/ in Varna and environmental NGO ‘Za Zemiata’ (For the Earth). […..] A Varna-based laboratory concluded that five types of feed containing soybean meal produced in Bulgaria contain over 5% of GMO soy “RoundupReady Soya 40-3-2”, the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA) announced.
2011-08-29
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According to the cables, GMO supporters in Bulgaria are actively backed and financed by the American Embassy, as Bivol writes. In a cable, sent in 2006, Charge d’Affaires, Alex Karagiannis, informs the US Department of State that the main obstacle for the passing of more liberal GMO legislation has been opposition coming from the President of the Bulgarian Academy of Science, Ivan Juchnovski. “According to Atanas Atanassov, Director of the Agro-Bio Institute, Juchnovski sent various “experts”, who knew little about the science of GMOs, to the Environmental and Agriculture Parliamentary Committees to critique the draft law.
2011-03-15
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The European Commission has criticised Bulgaria for its failure to comply with rules and regulations pertaining to the Genetically Modified Organism ban, threatening that the country has two months to come to heel or face the European Court of Justice, the EC website reported on March 14 2011. The complaint stems from the fact that Bulgaria has failed to meet the Directive’s requirements and implement adequate measures curtailing possible risk to human health and the environment.
2011-02-02
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Bulgaria’s Council of Ministers imposed a ban on the cultivation of genetically modified maize MON 810 on the territory of the country, the government’s press office reports. [...] The ban is also imposed in six other EU member states.
2010-06-18
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A ban of all genetically modified products and ingredients for preparation of children foods in Bulgaria has been proposed Wednesday in an amendment in the Bulgarian Food Act. The amendment, proposed by Desislava Taneva, chair of the Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Forests, from the ruling party GERB and two other MPs from the right-wing ”Blue Coalition”, stipulates a full ban on the distribution and sale of food products containing genetically modified organisms in child care centers, kindergartens, schools and the adjacent commercial outlets (100 m in range).
2010-03-19
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With not a single vote in favour and 168 against, proposals to lift existing limitations on cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Bulgaria were thrown out by Parliament on March 18 2010. The surprise decision came after ruling GERB party changed its position and dropped its support for the bill, Bulgarian-language daily Dnevnik said.
2010-03-18
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The vote stirred heated debates between representatives of different parties, leading to the decision to vote on the most argued about text on Thursday - the so-called article 80 introducing the general ban to grow genetically modified organisms. The ban would not apply to GMO already on the market. [...] The only text that was passed Wednesday was the requirement for all foods containing GMO to have clear signs about the content with twice larger font than all other letters on the label and different color letters.
2010-03-11
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Bulgaria Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, has stated that Genetically Modified foods will not be allowed ”to reach Bulgarians’ tables”. Naydenov stated Tuesday that all the European requirements will be introduced into the Bulgarian legislation, but added that the amendments to the GMO Act will also ban GM crops from being grown in the country.
2010-03-08
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The owners of cornfields polluted with GMO to be paid compensations
GMO cannot be cultivated in Bulgaria for experimental or commercial purposes – this will be the real-term effect of the GMO Act that will be passed on a second reading by the Parliamentary Committee for Environment next week.
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