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The new regulation will replace Regulation 2092/91/EEC on organic farming.
The main cause of concern is still the presence of GMOs in products bearing the ‘organic’ label; the Commission had provided for a tolerance of 0.9% of GMOs present, even though quantities of them can be detected from 0.1% upwards. We need to be cautious about GMOs in general, and it is above all necessary that consumers be properly informed about what they consume and use. It is, then, absolutely vital that due heed be paid to the expectations of those consumers who opt for an organic product, in other words, that they should be able to be certain that their product contains no GMOs.
I am therefore glad that this House has, in the Aubert report, introduced the 0.1% threshold, and I call on the Ministers of Agriculture in the Council to respond to the outcome of this vote by conducting an in-depth review of the regulation.
I wish to add that I also endorse Parliament’s call for the regulation to be adopted by codecision of the Council and Parliament, which I expect the Commission to endorse, since the opinions of elected representatives must count for more than those of civil servants."@en1
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