11.03.2010
Agriculture Minister: No GM crops will be grown in Bulgaria
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.
08.03.2010
GMO has no chance in Bulgaria
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.
22.02.2010
Bulgarian Goverment forced down on new GMO law
In January 2010, the Bulgarian parliament voted, on a first reading, legislation allowing the release of GM organisms into the environment. But as the law awaited final passage, the Environmental Parliamentary Committee came under public pressure to accept a five-year moratorium on GM cultivation and a ban on testing near organic fields and beehives. Environmentalists are now pushing for the new legislation to be dropped completely, rather than pass it with a five-year moratorium.
19.02.2010
Bulgaria MPs agree GMO amendments to protect organic farmland
The Bulgarian Parliamentary Committee on the Environment has agreed that GMOs will not be allowed within 7 kms of organic farmland, and 10 kms away from permanent, registered beehive clusters. They also adopted a five-year ban on the cultivation of GMOs for commercial and scientific research in the field. The document was voted before the new law on GMOs was adopted on second reading. The committee has accepted these changes to the Law on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) at the proposal of Evdokiya Maneva, Deputy Minister of Environment and Water.
12.02.2010
Bulgaria parliament committee adopts changes to GMO act including 5-year ban on GE crop cultivation
The Bulgarian Parliamentary Committee on Environment and Water has adopted the proposed changes to the GMO Act including the 5-year ban on GM Crop cultivation. The decision was backed by the 11 MPs on the Committee and will be voted on next week in the second hearing of the Act in the Bulgarian Parliament. It was passed at its first reading in January.
- Novinite, Bulgaria (11.02.2010): Bulgaria parliament committee adopts changes to GMO act
- Focus Information Agency, Bulgaria (11.02.2010): Environment and Water Committee adopts a five-year moratorium on GMOs
- Novinite, Bulgaria (11.02.2010): Bulgaria Environment Minister slams politicization of GMO act
- Focus Information Agency, Bulgaria (11.02.2010): BSP, MRF strike cotton off the prohibitive list of experiments with GMOs: Nona Karadzhova
- Novinite, Bulgaria (11.02.2010): People around Bulgaria rise in protest against GMO
- Reuters, UK (10.02.2010): Bulgaria repeats no GMO pledge, public unconvinced
- Focus Information Agency, Bulgaria (10.02.2010): GMO dispute … (ROUNDUP)
- Focus Information Agency, Bulgaria (11.02.2010): Amendments to GMO Act not imposed by Brussels: Iskra Mihaylova
- Novinite, Bulgaria (06.02.2010): Bulgaria Environment Minister: Socialist cabinet voted yes on GMO
- Standart, Bulgaria (10.02.2010): MRF insists on presidential veto for GMO act
05.02.2010
Prime Minister Borisov: 5-year GM crop ban ensures calmness in Bulgaria
Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov has stated that the proposed 5-year ban on GM crop trials will ?guarantee calmness? in Bulgarian society. ?I think that what the GERB MPs and the cabinet are proposing for Genetically Modified Organisms: firstly a moratorium for 5 years on everything to reassure the public and then what Brussels wants ? to vote on the changes, I think this is a 100% guarantee for all fear GMOs,? Borisov said Friday.
02.02.2010
Almost all Bulgarians stand against GM food
Over 300 environmentalists and consumers gathered at a protest rally against GMO in the last days of January. About 91% of the readers of the Standart declared against genetically modified plants being grown in Bulgaria, a survey in the Standart Internet edition showed. People insist that the state should not allow the use of foods containing modified genes in Bulgaria.
01.02.2010
Bulgarians rise in protest against genetically modified crops
Several hundred Bulgarians protested against the allowing of genetically modified organisms by the country?s legislation. [...] ?I am not sure whether the decision to adopt the GMO Act is the result of incompetence on part of the Environment Ministry who might have decided to harmonize Bulgaria?s legislation with that of the EU by liberalizing everything,? said lawyer Svilen Ovcharov from the ?Green Advocates? association. He pointed out that the decision to back GMO in Bulgaria would affect the popularity of all political parties which support it.
29.01.2010
First victory in the public debate on the changes in the Bulgarian GMO law
Following the strong pressure by the public, the experts? arguments and the numerous meetings the Ministry of Environment stepped back and accepted most of the suggestions of environmental organizations referring to the proposed changes in the GMO law. [...] The GMO law will be returned for re-consideration in a special working group in the Parliament with the participation of NGO experts, as well as in the consultative committee on GMO in the Ministry of Environment. The new suggestions of ?For the Nature Coalition? and other NGOs will be discussed.
20.01.2010
Bulgaria Parliament eases laws on GM crop cultivation
Bulgaria Environment Minister, Nona Karadzhova, stated that the amendments were necessary to bring Bulgaria inline with the rest of the EU and that they will not lead to the sale of GMO products in Bulgaria or the increased cultivation of GM crops. [...] ?The time for changes to the law on GMOs now is particularly inappropriate because the European Commission is currently discussing new legislation on GMOs, and in a few months it will be necessary to change the law again ? Agrolink Director Dr. Svetla Nikolova concluded.
15.12.2009
Bulgaria Parliament set to ease laws on GM crop cultivation
Bulgarian environmentalists protested against the proposed removal of the bans on the cultivation of GMOs. The Bulgarian Parliament is set to allow a much wider use of genetically modified crops in the country, after the Commission for Environment and Water approved a change in the law on GMOs. After a lengthy debate the Parliamentary Commission decided to harmonize the legislation on GMOs with the EU requirements.
18.05.2009
Agrolink Director Svetla Nikolova: We hope for GM Free Bulgaria
Interview with Svetla Nikolova, Director of AGROLINK (www.agrolink.org). AGROLINK brings together specialists, experts and farmers in a network of partnership with the aim to influence encourage and assist farmers and rural societies in Bulgaria to develop and support organic farming as the most sustainable agriculture system.
31.07.2007
Watch the Monster tomato Tour in Bulgaria
This summer Friends of the Earth is sending its Monster Tomato on tour around Bulgaria, Macedonia and Romania to raise awareness of GMOs (genetically modified organisms). While 70 per cent of Europeans are firmly against GMOs in their food, fields and countries, few Bulgarians know about the problems that GMOs can cause. Having said that, Bulgaria already has five GMO-free municipalities. The tour will pass through regions that are interested in initiating GMO-free zones.
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