Activities of Kriton ARSENIS related to 2010/0208(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Possibility for Member States to restrict or prohibit the cultivation of GMOs in their territory (debate)
Amendments (2)
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation - amending act
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) According to the legal framework for the authorisation of GMOs, the level of protection of human/animal health and of the environment chosen in the EU cannot be revised by a Member State and this situation must not be altered. However Member States may adopt measures restricting or prohibiting the cultivation of all or particular GMOs in all or part of their territory on the basis of grounds relating to the public interest other than those already addressed by the harmonised set of EU rules which already provide for procedures to take into account the risks that a GMO for cultivation may pose on health and the environment. Those measures should furthermore be in conformity with the Treaties, in particular as regards the principle of non discrimination between national and non national products and Articles 34 and 36 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, as well as with the relevant international obligations of the Union, notably in the context of the World Trade Organisation.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation - amending act
Article 1 – point 1
Article 1 – point 1
(a) those measures are based on (i) grounds other than those related to the assessment of the adverse effect on health and environment which might arise from the deliberate release or therelating to environmental impacts which might arise from the deliberate release or the placing on the market of GMOs, and which are complementary to the environmental impacts examined during the assessment of the negative impacts on the environment conducted under Part C of this Directive; or (ii) the absence or lack of data on the potential negative impacts of the release of GMOs on the territory or biodiversity of the Member State; or (iii) other grounds relating to environmental impacts complementary to the aforementioned assessment that may include, inter alia, changes in agricultural practices, land use, town and country placnning on the market of GMO, socio-economic impacts, or other relevant factors;