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    Amflora potato

    Presidents of the EU Parliament's largest political groups today blocked a Greens/EFA request - supported by the GUE/NGL Group - for a debate on GMOs in next week's plenary session in Strasbourg. The request follows the EU Commission's decision to authorise cultivation of the gen...
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    Letter to Commissioner John Dalli on Amflora potato

    'Amflora' contains a gene which conveys resistance to antibiotics classified as 'critically important' and 'increasingly important' by the WHO and EMEA. Greens/EFA find it highly questionable that the Health Commissioner authorise a GM plant with an antibiotic marker gene, against the warning of the Authority under your responsibility, Eu…
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    GMOs

    The European Commission has issued the first new cultivation authorisation for a genetically-modified plant variety in 12 years, despite health and environment concerns. The resistance of one of its genes to medically-valuable antibiotics has been identified as a particular problem.
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    Delivering the Right to Health with the Health Millennium Development Goals

    The conference - co-organised by by the Greens/EFA, the European Parliamentary Forum and the Action for Global Health - provides the opportunity for civil society to work with European leaders to find concrete solutions. Europe must move towards full funding for health, stronger health systems and universal access to basic health care in …
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    Child safety on social networking sites

    MEP welcomes EU initiative to better protect children who use the internetSNP President Ian Hudghton MEP has welcomed moves by the European Commission to make social networking sites safer for children who use them. Mr Hudghton commented following the publication of a new EU study which reveale...
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    Event |

    Managing risks

    Public health disasters remind us how essential it is to have an effective and proactive pharmacovigilance system to guarantee the safety of EU citizens. In December 2008, the European Commission put forward proposals for new legislation governing Pharmacovigilance in Europe. This expert meeting will debate about the consequences of the e…
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    Brussels Agenda

    In the upcoming European Parliament committee week, Greens/EFA agenda priorities and events include Haiti, discussions on the EU-US SWIFT agreement and medicine safety with particular regard to the swine flu vaccine.
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    GMOs-Consumer protection

    It has emerged in Germany that massive quantities of "organic" clothes and textiles – sold by high street chains such as H&M, C&A and Tchibo – have been sourced from genetically-modified cotton in India.Greens/EFA President Rebecca Harms commented:"Although the fraud has onl...
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    Radioactive foodstuffs

    The EP industry and energy committee today adopted a report on EU rules on the radioactive contamination of foodstuffs (1). MEPs called for the legal base to be changed to ensure the European Parliament is a co-legislator on the proposal (2). Green MEPs believe the maximum permitted levels of radio...
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    Greens/EFA Round-up 14-17 December 2009

    Priorities for the Greens included the Commission statement on toy safety, the report on microfinance facility, the resolution on access to documents, the award of the Sakharov Prize, the resolution on violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as the EU budget.