2 Amendments of Benedek JÁVOR related to 2010/0208(COD)
Amendment 162 #
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Directive 2001/18/EC
Article 26a– paragraph 1
Article 26a– paragraph 1
(-1) Article 26 a (1) is replaced by the following: 1. Member States mayshall take appropriate measures to avoid the unintended presence of GMOs in other products on their territory and in the border areas of neighbouring Member States. In order to avoid conflicting measures of neighbouring countries, the Commission shall elaborate minimum Union-level requirements on preventing cross-border contaminations.
Amendment 288 #
Council position
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Directive 2001/18/EC
Article 26 b a (new)
Article 26 b a (new)
Article 26ba Liability requirements and financial guarantees Member States shall establish a general mandatory system of financial liability and financial guarantees in their national GMO laws, which applies to all operators and which ensures that the polluter pays for unintended effects or damage that might occur due to the deliberate release or the placing on the market of GMOs. The Commission shall establish a mandatory EU-level financial guarantee fund built up from contributions of all the companies introducing GMO products to the European market in order to cover supplementary unintended costs of cross- border contamination cases.