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    Patents on plants and animals

    The hearing will deal with patents on conventional breeding of plants and animals and their consequences for the agricultural sector and the food production. How to interpret the EU Biotech Patents Directive 98/44/EC ? Is there a need to change the law? The point of view of stakeholders.
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    Gates Foundation

    Bill Gates addressed the Development committee of the European Parliament last week and received a warm welcome from the MEPs present. The questions that followed his address were light and easy with one exception: Green MEP Catherine Grèze challenged Mr. Gates on the funding of his foundation, a...
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    GMO (In)Digest

    Download the newsletter here (pdf) EU Work Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCFCAH) At the 12th January meeting of the SCFCAH, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) presented its opinion on 2 genetically modified maize for cultivation, MON88017 from Monsanto and GA21 from...
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    BASF out of Europe

    The World's Number 1 chemical company, German giant BASF, announced that it is stopping the development of genetically modified crops in the EU and moving its headquarters for Plant Science to the USA. After battling for more than 12 years to get its GM potato for industrial uses authorised in 20...
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    GMO (In)Digest

    Download the newsletter here (pdf) EU Work Honey The European Commission seems unsure about how to proceed after the ECJ decision that pollen and honey contaminated with MON810 are illegal (Case C‑442/09). It has met with EFSA and Monsanto to consider what steps would be necessary for the compan...
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    Plenary Round-up

    Priorities for the Greens during the plenary week included the European railway area, the nuclear energy research and EU funds, short selling and sovereign debt speculation, the UN climate change summit 2011, illegal fishing, honeybees and beekeeping
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    New diseases found in GMO products

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    Honeybee health and the challenges of the beekeeping

    The European Parliament, -     having regard to its resolution of 25 November 2010 on the situation in the beekeeping sector[1], –    having regard to the Communication of the Commission of 6 December 2010 on honeybee health (COM(2010)0714), –   ...
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    Slow Food

    Our generation realises that the current food system has come to a point where drastic change is needed in order to protect our future. The current food system is exploitative, unhealthy and unsustainable. Though the effects differ from country to country, the Youth Food Movement connects projects across the world, creating a stronger, un…
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    ECJ ruling on GMOs

    The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today issued a groundbreaking ruling in a case concerning the contamination of honey with pollen from genetically modified crops (1). The court ruled that honey contaminated by pollen from a GM maize variety (MON810) cannot be sold on the market, as this maize has...