Denmark
Updates + Overviews
Organisations and institutions active on GMO
GMOs - No thanks (Danish) NOAH - Friends of the Earth Denmark (Danish and English) Organic Agriculture Association (Danish) Biotekcenter (Danish) Active Consumers - DK (Danish and English)
Presentations
Vienna, February 2005
Svend Pedersen, Danish Plant Directorate: 
Legal and practical implications of rules on co-existence between genetically modified, conventional and organic crops in Denmark
Official and institutional links
Ministry of the Environment Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Environment Protection Agency Danish Forest and Nature Agency
Legal documents
Regulatory Developments in Biotechnology in Denmark Legislation on GMOs, Danish Biosafety Clearing House
The Danish coexistence law The Danish coexistence law - notes by Dan Belusa, Greenpeace Denmark
Friends of the Earth Europe Biotech mailout: http://www.gmo-free-regions.org/Downloads/foe_Biotech_Danish_law.pdf Danish co-existence law is full of weaknesses Consolidated Environment and Genetic Engineering Act 
Statutory Order from the Ministry of the Environment No. 687 of October 11, 1991, on Fees in Pursuance of Act on Environment and Genetic Engineering Statutory Order No. 830 of October 3, 2002, on the Approval of Production using Genetically Modified Micro-organisms Statutory Order No. 831 of October 3, 2002, on Deleberate Release into the Environment of Genetically Modified Organisms Statutory Order No. 829 of October 3, 2002, on the Approval of Production using Genetically Modified Plants and Animals Act No. 436 of 9 June 2004 "Act on the Growing etc. of Genetically Modified Crops"
Petitions
GMO-free Regions and areas: Petition to the European Commission. Download in pdf-format doc-format
Petition "Save our Seeds" to the European Commission. Download the petition and see the list of signing organisations here
Other background information
Strategy for co-existence: genetically modified, conventional and organic crops. Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries. 11 attitudes to the crops of the future, Biotekcenter, 2002. The consequences of genetically modified crops for organic farming in Denmark, Gösta Kjellson, NERI and Birte Boelt, DIAS. Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming, March 2003.
More information on gene technology can be found in NOAH's websites Gendebat and Globale Gener (Danish).
US Department of Agriculture: Annunal Agricultural Biotech Report 2005 US Department of Agriculture: Annunal Agricultural Biotech Report 2006
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