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Along with the Council and the Commission, the Social Progressive Alternative delegation has agreed to the rapporteur's compromise proposals.
Thanks to these compromises, it is possible to make rapid progress towards sound legislation on GMO food and feed, traceability and labelling. At the same time, they put in place a number of guarantees concerning the co-existence of GMO and non-GMO agriculture, because an amendment to Directive 2001/18/EC will explicitly enable Member States to avoid the unintentional presence of GMOs. At the same time, it is clarified that Parliament is the requesting party to draw up European legislation on co-existence.
After all, since traceability and labelling are not enough to be able to guarantee the freedom of choice on the part of the consumer in the long term, co-existence measures are equally important. In exchange for these compromises, Parliament is abandoning its requirements concerning stricter threshold values for GMO contamination (0.5%), values which, in fact, would not be supported by everyone in either Parliament, or the Council. Consequently, it seems more important to us to have certainty about an agreement on co-existence, because without such measures, not a single Member State would be able to enforce the threshold values.
With this legislation, even with the compromise, Europe is the first to introduce stricter legislation concerning the permission, traceability and labelling of GMOs. Liability, however, should also be regulated at the earliest opportunity, and this is what Parliament requested of the Commission during first reading of the environmental liability directive."@en1
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