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a glimse of one approach some europesn countries are taking to gmos


martin
>
>CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE CROCEVIA
>Via ferraironi, 88/G
>ROME ITALY
>
>Dear friends,
>
>Please find attached the full text of the new legislation just approuved by
>the Regional Gouvernement of Lazio Region - Italy for a "GMO FRRE REGION".
>  on the total exclusion of use of GMO on delibarate release or cultivation
>in the territory of Lazio region (5 milion people, 230.000 farms!)
>
>The law of 10 articles "Norme in materia di coltivazione, allevamento,
>sperimentazione e commercializzazione di organismi geneticamente modificati
>(OGM) e prodotti da loro derivati" (Obbligations on coltivation, animal
>production, experimentation and commercialisation of GMO and derivated
>products) says:
>
>1.No cultivation or experimentation in any public or collective land, any
>protected land at any title, any organic farming territory and any place at
>border for 2 Km. Any farmer that decide to be "GMO free" can ask to the
>regional gouvernment to impose NO use of GMO for 2 Km at is borders
>
>2. At present NO cultivation of transgenic crops is allowed in the territory
>of the Region
>
>3. All farms or other agroindustry using GMO, at any title,  are escluded
>from any financial support from the Regional Budget and the AGENDA 2000
>programs
>
>4. In all the collective restourants, from school to workplace, under the
>controll of Region or controlled istitutions NO GMO food is obligatory.
>
>5. All the private commercial managing collective pubblic restourants have
>the obbligation of control to garantee of GMO free food
>
>6. All the shops in the Region have to expose only goods with clear
>etiquetage. Such GMO good have to be exposed to the pubblic in a very clear
>and segregated parts of the shop. GMO free shop will have support by the
>regional gouvernement
>
>7. Agricolture research: all genetic engeneering research are escluted from
>the financial support of the Regional budget. Protecting biodiversity and
>diversification of the farming systems will have absolute priority in
>financial support
>
>8. Deliberate releases autorized by national state, if biocontamination of
>regional relevant crops is at risk, will be stopped in all regional
>territory
>
>9. Informed consensus: the region will informe of any test the local
>municipality and all the farmers of the municipality. The regional
>gouvernement will support all the municipality "GMO free"
>
>10. The regional gouvernement will organize information campains on the
>genetic engeneering risks
>
>11. A regional Control and monitoring commission is created with the mandate
>to investigate, controll and report on the GMO field test, food chaine and
>food shops and markets
>
>12. Juridical fremework: special attention is developed to the juridical
>base.
>This part, wery complicated for the presence of EU and national legislation,
>is worked on the base of "concrete application" of principols accepted
>formaly by EU and national state. Of course is aspected a strong reaction by
>national state and EU. A suivre! As all you know formaly no regional
>gouvernement can block a decision origineted by National state or EU but we
>appel to the national costitution and many others juridical sources giving
>to the regional gouvernement "power to protect" is own economy and citizens.
>
>And finaly, in the rapport approved with the law, we find  "special thaks to
>CROCEVIA for is support on the elaboration of this text"  (happy to be
>there!)
>
>
>We sugest to all of you to try to do the same exrcise at your level and
>provoque  a "State conflit" on the juridical base of the autorization of GMO
>crops cultivation also in privete field.

>
Martin Connaughton
Wilderness Flowers
223 North Guadalupe St.  pmb # 159
Santa Fe, NM 87501
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