10-year moratorium approved on entrance of GMOs to Peru
Farmers from Cusco came to Lima at the beginning of May to protest the entrance of GMOs to Peru.
Congress has adopted a bill that declares a 10-year moratroium on the entrance of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for cultivation and breeding or any other type of transgenic products, reports Perú.21
The project was supported by the president of the Agricultural Commission Aníbal Huerta, who warned against the danger he says that biotechnology could bring to the country's biodiversity.
New South Wales (Australia) extends GM crop moratorium until 2021
CCP SUPPORTS GM MORATORIUM EXTENSION BILL
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http://parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/NSWBills.nsf/d2117e6bba4ab3eb...
Gene Technology (GM Crop Moratorium) Amendment (Postponement of Expiry) Bill 2011
Assented on 21/06/2011 - Act No 17 of 2011.
Gene Technology (GM Crop Moratorium) Amendment (Postponement of Expiry) Bill 2011
Clause 1 The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:
BASF SAID TO CONSIDER GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP EXIT IN GERMANY
BASF SE, the world’s biggest chemical maker, may withdraw genetically modified crop research from Germany in response to growing political opposition, three people familiar with discussions said.
The maker of the Amflora scientific potato is considering the future of its research facility in rural Limburgerhof in southwestern Germany, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t public. A move to the U.S. is possible for the plant biotechnology operations, which employ 700, said one of the people.
BAYER AGREES TO PAY $750 MILLION TO END LAWSUITS OVER GENE-MODIFIED RICE
A Bayer AG unit agreed to a $750 million settlement resolving claims with about 11,000 U.S. farmers who said a strain of the company’s genetically modified rice tainted crops and ruined their export value.
The settlement, announced yesterday, ends scores of lawsuits filed against the Bayer CropScience unit of the Leverkusen, Germany-based company by farmers in Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi.
GM CROP SABOTEURS GO FREE IN FRANCE
On June 28, 2011, the court of Poitiers in central France acquitted eight defendant Volunteer Reapers (les Faucheurs Volontaires) of destroying a genetically modified field trial in 2008. Among those acquitted were anti-globalist Jose Bove and Francois Dufour, recognized as ”repeat offenders.”
The court also dismissed Monsanto’s financial claims. Apart from their own legal expenses, the Reapers owe nothing for the 2008 mowing of a GM field trial of Monsanto’s GM corn, Mon810 x Nk603.
