3 Amendments of Kathleen VAN BREMPT related to 2010/0208(COD)
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a regulation - amending act
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Under this set of legislation, GMOs for cultivation shall undergo an individual risk assessment before being authorised to be placed on the Union market, taking into account, in accordance with Annex II of Directive 2001/18/EC, the direct, indirect, immediate and delayed effects, as well as the cumulative long-term effects, on human health and the environment. The aim of this authorisation procedure is to ensure a high level of protection of human life and health, animal health and welfare, the environment and consumer interests, whilst ensuring the effective functioning of the internal market.
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation - amending act
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) On the basis of the subsidiarity principle, the purpose of this Regulation is not to harmonize the conditions of cultivation in Member States but to grant freedom to Member States to invoke other grounds than scientific assessment of health and environmental risks to ban restrict or prohibit the cultivation of GMOs on their territory on grounds relating to environmental or other legitimate factors which might arise from the deliberate release or the placing on the market of GMOs where those factors have not been addressed as part of the harmonised procedure foreseen in Part C of Directive 2001/18/EC or have not been sufficiently dealt with. In addition one of the purposes of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations which is to allow the Commission to consider the adoption of binding acts at EU level would not be served by the systematic notification of Member States’ measures under that Directive. Moreover, since measures which Member States can adopt under this Regulation cannot have as a subject the placing of the market of GMOs and thus does not modify the conditions of placing on the market of GMOs authorised under the existing legislation, the notification procedure under Directive 98/34/EC does not appear the most appropriate information channel for the Commission. Therefore, by derogation, Directive 98/34/EC should not be applicable. A simpler notification system of the national measures prior to their adoption appears to be a more proportionate tool for the Commission to be aware of these measures. Measures which Member States intend to adopt should thus be communicated together with their reasons to the Commission and to the other Member States one month prior to their adoption for information purposes.
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a regulation - amending act
Article 1 – point 1
Article 1 – point 1
Directive 2001/18/EC
Article 26 b – paragraph 1– point a
Article 26 b – paragraph 1– point a
(a) those measures are based on grounds other thancomplementary to and/or different from those related to the assessment of the adverse effect on health and environment which might arise from the deliberate release or the placing on the market of GMOs, including: (i) additional environmental grounds which have not been subject to an evaluation pursuant to this Directive; (ii) grounds justifying the maintenance and development of agricultural practices which offer the best combination of production with ecosystem sustainability; (iii) grounds relating to the appearance of resistance or invasive plants; (iv) grounds relating to the existence of alternative practices to GMO cultivation and with better technical, economic and environmental performance;