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Like the Scheele report, the Trakatellis report on the traceability and labelling of genetically modified organisms is, for us, an opportunity to address a serious warning to the Commission and Member States.
Indeed, we have a strong sense that they are awaiting only the final adoption of the regulations on traceability before lifting the moratorium at present imposed on GMOs in Europe. Such adoption would therefore serve as a guarantee, even if two other essential conditions had still not been fulfilled: the existence of a clear definition of liabilities (accompanied by corresponding financial guarantees) in connection with the damage likely to be caused by GMOs; and the entry into force of hitherto non-existent rules definitely guaranteeing the non-contamination of traditional crops by GMO crops.
This last point is essential. It may be remembered that union leader José Bové was convicted in France for having uprooted transgenic corn plants, an act considered to be a violation of a private property right. Had not this violation, however, been preceded by another, much more serious, one: violation, in the shape of the risk of contamination by GMOs, of neighbouring private properties and of the natural environment in general, which is owned by all?"@en1
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