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The ban will remain because new GMO approvals are not acceptable until an adequate EU biosafety framework has been completed and been implemented by all Member States. Such approvals would, in fact, contravene the precautionary principle to which the new directive makes explicit reference and they would put the environment and consumers' health at risk. The Member States should resist any attempts to lift the
moratorium by ‘gentleman's agreements’ with biotech companies.
Due to Green efforts, the new directive will also require all locations of GMO releases to be recorded in a public register. It will also ensure new and higher safety standards for the protection of the environment and human health, it is based on a broadened risk assessment approach and introduces new concepts of traceability and monitoring which might help to identify and remedy adverse effects of GMOs at an earlier stage.
However, elements of this framework, the traceability and labelling of GMOs and their derivatives, the liability for damage caused by GMOs and the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety have not yet been addressed through any legislation. To vote in favour of the directive would be like buying a pig in a poke.
More than 6 000 hectares of farmland in four Member States of the European Union were sown last year with oilseed rape varieties contaminated by genetically modified plants. Under the directive Member States are required to terminate such unauthorised releases."@en1
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