Belgium

Organisations and institutions active on GMO

 Greenpeace (French)

 Le CAGE - Collectif d'Action GenEthique (French)

 Terre Sacree - SOS Planete (French)

 Nature et Progres Belgique (French)

 Inf’OGM

 Wervel (English, French, Flamish)

 VELT (Flamish)

Official and institutional links

National institutions

 Belgian Biosafety Server (French, Flamish, English)

 Federal Public Service (FPS) Health, Food Chain Security and Environment

 Belgian Biosafety Advisory Council

 Belgian Biosafety Clearing-House

 Scientific Institute of Public Health

Regional institutions

 Walloon Region: Ministère de la Région Wallonne, Direction Générale des Ressources Naturelles et de l'Environnement (DGRNE), Division de la Prévention et des Autorisations

 Flemish Region: Vlaamse Minister van Leefmilieu, Departement Leefmilieu en Infrastructuur, Administratie Milieu-, Natuur-, Land- en Waterbeheer (AMINAL)

 Brussels Region: Brussels Institute for Management on the Environment (IBGE-BIM)

Legal documents

National

 Preliminary draft Decree on the coexistence of genetically modified crops, conventional crops and organic crops (September 2006)

 Deliberate release of GMOs in the environment: Regulatory framework

 Regulatory framework for the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Regional

 Contained use of GMOs and pathogens: Flemish region Walloon region  Brussels region

Petitions

Zones sans-OGM : Pétition pour la commission européenne. Download  in pdf-format     doc-format

Legalisering ggo-vrije zones: Petitie aan de Europese Commissie. Download in  pdf-format  doc-format

Pétition / Petitie "Save our Seeds" aan de EU Commissarissen. Download and list of signing organisations  here

Other background information

EU Commission, DG Sanco:  Report on an evaluation of the Belgian GMO controls (Feb 2006)

Communiqué de presse:  En Wallonie, les ogm pourront-ils se payer une pollution? (Nov. 2005)

 20 regions d’Europe refusent les OGM ! Et si la Wallonie et Bruxelles etaient les 21e et 22e ?

 Nature & Progrès Belgique demande les Régions Wallonne et Bruxelloise ratifient la Charte de Florence et revendiquent ainsi le droit de se protéger de la contamination transgénique, Feb 2005

 GMO free Flanders, presentation at World Social Forum, 2003

VELT - the federation for ecological living and producing - launched the 'GMO-free communities campaign in Belgium last year. It has been urging all Flemish local governments to declare their territories GMO-free. So far 39 communities in the Flemish speaking part of Belgium (Vlaanderen) have declared themselves GMO free.

See below for a map of GMO-free communities in Flandern. For a list of these communities and for more info click on the map or go to:  http://old.velt.be/DossierGGO/dossier_ggo.htm

In the French speaking part of Belgium (Wallonie) 81 communities have declared themselves GMO-free led by NATURE PROGRES BELGIQUE See below for a map of french speaking GMO-free communities. For more info click on the map or go to  http://www.natpro.be

 Velt's dossier on GMOs (Flamish)

Map of the GMO-free-communities in Flandern and more information on genetic modified organisms

 US Department of Agriculture: Annunal Agricultural Biotech Report

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