The Information Campaign on GMOs in Iceland would like to bring to your attention the latest articles published on their bi-lingual website "erfdabreytt.net", with the latest news on the progress of the debate on GM in Iceland. Including an article on the first GMO-Free Zone established in this country on February the 1st by the Nature Health Association of Iceland.
Sunday Times of Scottland: McConnell?s U-turn signal on GM crops
Greenpeace activists this morning started an action against the Swedish company Swedish Meats. Greenpeace wants to inform that Swedish Meats has allowed the use of genetically modified animal feed.
The participants of the conference entitled "A United No to GMO" held in the City of Krakow-Kalwaria, on February 24-25th, 2006, accepted a KRAKOW DECLARATION where they called upon all National Governments and the European Commission to respect the voice of their citizen's and to halt all imports, sales and planting of genetically modified foods and seeds.
The European Commission?s Joint Research Centre just published case studies to identify how farmers can reduce the ?adventitious? ? unintended and unavoidable ? presence of GM material in non-GM harvests. The objective of the report is to provide a science-based reference to support any future design and implementation of coexistence measures within the EU.
JRC: New case studies on the coexistence of GM and non-GM crops in European agriculture
Europes biotech industry has criticised Romania's proposed ban on transgenic soybeans, claiming that the decision will negatively impact both the European food industry and consumers.
Foodnavigator: Romanian GM ban slammed by biotech industry
checkbiotech: Romania dumping GMO soy may not stop spread say Greens
Writing in the latest issue of Parliament Magazine, Austrian agriculture and environment minister, Joseph Proell said he will ask national environment ministers meeting in Brussels on March 9 to take another look at the EU´s GM authorisation procedures. "The Austrian presidency will initiate another debate on the longstanding practice of approving GMOs when no qualified majority is reached," said Proell.
The long-awaited Commission report on GM co-existence is expected to be adopted by the Commission College at the end of February (or March at the latest), officials have indicated this week, with a Council working group planned by the Austrian Presidency on March 22, ahead of the April 4-6 Conference on co-existence in Vienna.
The Romanian government has decided toban the growing of Roundup Ready soybeans from 1. January 2007. Permits to continue growing in 2006 will be given only under special conditions. This is a major blow to Monsanto's strategy to use the country, where last year around 140.000 hectares were planted to the GM soybeans, as a hub to introduce GMO cultivation in Europe.
France is proposing a new law that would effectively absolve the government of financial responsibility for contamination caused by genetically modified (GMO) crops, a move condemned by environmental groups. A French poll published on Tuesday by a coalition of environmental and farming groups showed 78 percent of those questioned would like a temporary ban on GMOs to evaluate their health and environmental impact.
The World Trade Organization ruled on Tuesday that the European Union and six member states had broken trade rules by barring entry to genetically modified crops and foods.
Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz said Tuesday that work is underway on a draft law on genetically modified organisms (GMO) so that to adjust Polish legislation to the EU requirements.
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