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"The regulations on GMOs ought to be a major advance in terms of bio-security, freedom of choice and freedom of information for consumers. However, in the two texts in our debate today, there is no indication of any progress having been made. The most critical point is still the thresholds for the presence of GMOs permitted when such a presence is technically unavoidable. The Council is proposing 0.9%. This is too much! We should go back to the position adopted by Parliament at first reading, which envisaged a maximum of 0.5%. As for unauthorised GMOs, how can the Council make them legal in the food chain by proposing a threshold of 0.5% when these are GMOs that are prohibited in the EU?
A response is also required to the issue of crop contamination. The Commission has shifted responsibility onto the Member States, while reserving for itself the right to draw up, at a later date, guidelines on the coexistence of conventional and genetically modified crops. In the immediate future, Member States must be able to take sovereign measures as a matter of urgency, for example by suspending authorisations when there is a risk to public health or a risk of contaminating the environment. It is also necessary, in my opinion, to exclude seeds from the regulation, by making a distinction between living GMOs that should fall within the scope of Directive 2001/18/CE, thereby making their traceability compulsory, and genetically modified foods.
It will also be necessary to define a real system of liability for the introduction of GMOs into agriculture and the environment. In my opinion, the ‘polluter pays’ principle should apply here, so that a farmer who uses GMOs will have to pay compensation for any damage caused to conventional farming.
Finally, I am fully in support of maintaining the European moratorium despite the complaint that the United States has submitted to the WTO."@en1
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