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The report includes a series of proposals that we consider positive, as they make the Member States better able to prevent or limit the cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) than the Commission proposal. We hope that these good intentions will be translated into real improvements to an authorisation system that has been basing its decisions on ‘scientific studies’ promoted, essentially, by companies that own GMO patents, and that the Council and Commission will accept the proposals adopted by Parliament.
We recall that a recent study by Portuguese researchers has once again called into question the independence of studies on the effects of genetically modified foodstuffs on health financed by the industry, which is a stakeholder in their commercialisation. We hope that the majority in this Parliament will stand firm in the negotiations, and that their positive position will not just equate to a political manoeuvre, only to later fall in line with the economic interests behind GMOs.
For our part, we continue to advocate an effective application of the precautionary principle and the withdrawal of the GMO species already introduced, so defending health, the environment and farmers. We also reject the control of seeds by the multinationals that hold GMO patents, and their use to increase exploitation of small and medium-sized farmers, and of family farming."@en1
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