Belgium, 3 gene-testfields destroyed
Submitted by Chuck0:BELGIUM : 3 GE AVENTIS OILSEED RAPE FIELDS UPROOTED
Not 1, not 2... but 3 in a row ! The number of cleared PGS-Aventis
oilseed rape experimental fields in Belgium during last week-end
eventually amounts to three. "Experimental" fields... or rather
commercial seeds production ones under experimental cover.
As a matter of fact, since 1996 Aventis have been storing the MS8 &
RF3 seeds harvested in Belgium on more than 80 ha each year. Thus
does the company anticipates a much needed European authorisation
which would turn those commercial crops into lawful ones.
An authorisation for that oilseed rape has been repeatedly blocked at
the European level for the de facto moratorium on new GM plant
varieties has taken effect in June 98. But with the full support of
Jaak Gabri=EBls, the Belgian Agriculture State Secretary, PGS-Aventis
expect getting such an authorisation as soon as September 2001.
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