GMO Free Regions

Report from the European Conference, Berlin 22 -23 January 2005

03.02.2005 |Sabine Brückmann

European conference calls for regional governance

“The Regions of Europe should be given the final say on the growing of genetically modified crops (GMOs) in their area”, as a major European conference concluded last weekend.

The conference, organised during the International Green Week in Berlin, heard that with over 100 regional and 3500 sub-regional areas now declaring themselves GMO-free, it was time for European law to be changed to protect such areas from the cultivation of GM crops.

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