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"I am pleased at the vote on Mrs Lepage’s report, which was submitted to MEPs today at first reading, because it aims to bring legal security to Member States who wish to restrict or to prohibit genetically modified organisms (GMOs) within their territory. This report gives them a large range of arguments to legitimise their decision, and it goes further than the initial proposal by the European Commission, which, as we know, has recently taken very favourable positions with regard to GMOs.
On this subject, I asked Commissioner Dalli why existing legislation on this matter – namely, the Directive 2001/18/CE, which includes numerous legal and scientific guarantees – had still not been applied. Why have the recommendations contained in the conclusions of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development from December 2008, for example in terms of enhancing Community scientific evaluations, remained a dead letter to this day? In my opinion, the guarantee of an independent and absolute scientific evaluation is an essential precondition for the confidence of citizens and the Member States. In a general sense, I truly consider today’s vote to be a victory for citizens, because we should not forget that, according to the last Eurobarometer poll in October 2010, 61% of Europeans remain opposed to the growing of GMOs."@en1
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