Revision of the European Legislative framework about GMOs   European Commission's proposal:   the Communication - the new Recommendation - the proposal of Regulation     The GMO free European Regions Network welcomes the new proposal as it recognizes the subsidiarity principle in the field of GMOs cultivation   Our press:   Upper Austria (Austrian version) - Tuscany -
NON GM LABELS, QUALITY PRODUCTIONS AND EUROPEAN REGIONAL AGRICULTURES' STRATEGY Conference 3 - 4 February 2010 Committee of Regions, Brussels
	Joint Statement between the Network and the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture (download the pdf - EN / IT)     signed on 17 may 2007 during the 5th Conference of the Network in Turin  by: Susanna Cenni - as Coordinator of the Network   Vandana Shiva - as President of the International Commission
Strategic targets:   GM Contamination threeshold: the position of the network about seeds   Organic farming: the press of the network about the New EC Regulation   Coexistence: Network's position (political paper - technical paper)   Biotech research: - Network's position - 7th Framework Programme, our ideas
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29 april 2009 - Workshop on coexistence 18 april 2007 - Multilateral meeting with EC	30-jun-2009: Welsh Assembly Government launched a consultation on proposals for managing a coexistence regime in Wales - link. Download the pdf document. The consultation will close on 22 September 2009.   4-jun-2009: COEXTRA Conference in Paris: Participation of a Network speaker - (note). Article of Le Monde - link.   29-apr-2009: Workshop on socio-economic aspects of coexistence organized by the Network (link)   2-apr-2009: EU Commission issued the 2nd report on coexistence in the European Union (link - pdf).   2-mar-2009: EU Environmental Council voted against the proposals of the European Commission to remove Austrian and Hungarian bans on transgenic corn - The Network expresses its satisfaction for the decision of a large majority of Environmental Ministries to maintain the national bans over transgenic corn.   4-dec-2008: EU Council adopted conclusions on GMOs. Press release - Contribution of the Network during the definition of the Conclusions (pdf) On-line the European Coexistence Bureau website     23/24-oct-2008: Network Assembly hosted by Slow Food at the "Salone del Gusto 2008"
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28 jun 09:   14 feb 08: Germany's Upper House of Parliament gave the green light to a new "GM Free" label for foods that contain no genetically modified organisms.   feb 08: The French Government approved a moratorium on MON810 BT Maize. New German legislation on GM-free labeling.    dec 07: Liability and Compensation Schemes for Damage Resulting from the Presence of Genetically Modified Organisms in Non-GM Crops: A study  financed by the European Commission and realised by the Research Unit for European Tort Law of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with ECTIL (European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law) (download - link to website)   dec 07: Soils Association's report "Silent Invasion": the hidden use of GM crops in livestock feed (download)   10-Oct-07: BT-corn: new evidencies on possible risk for the environment (info).   3-Oct-07: French National Assembly's report on the European Union GMO Regulation. (link - FR only)	Photo: Cédric Puisney, 2003
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