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A national initiative of 28 organisations representing farmers, large distribution, small and medium sized businesses, consumer, environmental, scientific, cultural and international cooperation interest groups launches an National Consultation on GMOs. The aim is to collect 3 million votes against GMOs in Italy from September 15 to November 15.
English description of the National Consultation
Appeal: Responsible Science for Sustainable Food
Organisations and institutions active on GMO
Campaign "Communi Antitransgenici" (GM-free municipalities) (Italian) Greenpeace Italy (Italian) Consiglio dei Diritti Genetici (Italian) Bioethical National Committee Against GMO (Italian)
Presentations
Brussels, April 2007 Regional laws to protect and enhance local varieties
Natale Bazzanti, agricultural development and innovation agency, ARSIA, Toscana, Italy
The national debate on GMOs and the agro-food model for Italy
Luca Colombo, Genetic Rights foundation, Italy
Berlin, January 2005
GMO-free Regions: the case of Italy, Luca Colombo, Consiglio dei Diritti Genetici; Stefano Masini, Confederazione nationale Coldiretti Protection of the autochthonous genetic resources in Tuscany, Gracia Mammucini, Regione Toscana, Italy GMOs and patents in Italy, Fabrizia Pratesi, Equivita, Italy
Legal documents
National Draft Decree-Law on urgent provisions for the coexistence of transgenic, conventional and
organic crops
Analisys on the recent Italian law on coexistence, Roberto Piccinini (Greenpeace)
In Italian: National decree on GM coexistence National legislation on GMO
Regional
As Reference to the Tuscany law: Council Directive 98/95/EC of 14 December 1998 The Directive Council of the regional authority Romanatura Summary of the Law of the Region of Tuscany (April 2000) - Regarding regional regulations concerning genetically modified organisms (GMO)
In Italian: Regional legislation on GMO
Petitions
Territori e regioni liberi da OGM. Petizione alla Commissione Europea. Download in pdf-format doc-format
Petizione "Save our Seeds". Download the petition and see the list of signing organisations here
Other background information
Map of GM-free Regions in Italy
GM Watch: Italy's powerful resistance to GMOs - Review of the year (16/1/2005)
Anti-Genetic Engineering Communities Italy: Manifest
Renato F. Bologna, Coordinamento Comuni Antitransgenici: Antitransgenic Municipalities Network:GE-free zones in Italy Italian Parliament approves GM farming law (Genet-info) GMO-Free municipalities reach 248 in Piedmont, Italy (Genet-info)
US Department of Agriculture:Coexistence in Italy - The Court steps in (2006) US Department of Agriculture: Annunal Agricultural Biotech Report (2005)
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