Netherlands
GMO-free news from the Netherlands
This links to a page with GENET-news from the Netherlands that are relevant for the development of GMO-free zones.
Updates + Overviews
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Since January 26, 2011 the Dutch province of Friesland is the first GMO-free region in the Netherlands. More
In July 2011 the Community Council of Nijmegen declared the city GMO-free.
Organisations and institutions active on GMO
Gentech-NL (Joint Dutch NGO website on GMOs in Dutch language)
ASEED (English and Dutch) and the Gentechvrije Zones Campaign Homepage (Dutch)
Milieudefensie - Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Dutch)
Greenpeace Netherlands (Dutch)
Nederlands Platform Genetechnologie (Dutch)
De Gentechvrije Burgers (English and Dutch)
GoedeWaar.nl (Dutch)
Burgers voor gentechvrij voedsel (Dutch)
Official and institutional links
Commission on Genetic Modification (English and Dutch)
GMO Bureau (Dutch)
Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority
Petitions
Cyberaction Stop the Crop
Legalisering ggo-vrije zones: Petitie aan de Europese Commissie. Download in pdf-format doc-format
Legal documents
Order issued by the Commodity Board for Arable Products on crop coexistence 2005
Dutch GMO Legislation overview (English)
Besluit genetisch gemodificeerde organismen milieubeheer van 25 januari 1990
Links to information and resources on GM foods (EU GMO-compass)
Other background information
Overzicht vergunningsaanvragen proefvelden Gentechmaïs (2008) (Dutch)
Reader of the film: "Gen Zoekt Boer" with background information (Dutch)
Synopsis of the film 'The Farmer and the Gene' (Dumitriu/Verbeek, 2008, the Netherlands, English)
Friends of the Earth Europe Biotech mailout: Dutch agreement on Coexistence
Press Release Concerning the Commission on Co-Existence in the primary sector
US Department of Agriculture:
Dutch Government supports GM crop research (2006)
Annual Ag-Biotech Report on NL/B/LUX (2006)
Annual Agricultural Biotech Report, NL (2005)
