Netherlands

Updates + Overviews

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There is currently no GMO-free region in the Netherlands.

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)
Goede Waar & Co (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

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)