Translation of the text in English: The Italian Senate has unanimously approved agenda requiring the Ministries of Agriculture, Environment and Health, to adopt the "safeguard clause" regarding GM crops (GMOs). The rule laid down in 2001 by the European Union (EU), although debated, allows a member country to ban such crops, although Community legislation has approved them. Italy experimentally grown in just one hectare GMO super-protected, compared to more than 100,000 in Spain, although it is the difficulty of GMOs that come through imports. Other EU countries, including France, have resorted to the same clause, but have had to deal with appeals to the Strasbourg court. "We do not need GM products," he challenged the Italian Farmers Confederation (CIA), according to which "the safeguard clause against GMOs is essential to protect our agriculture diversified and quality". The Minister of Agriculture, Nunzia De Girolamo, added that "Italian agriculture needs to rest on their areas of greatest strength and therefore GMO crops can not be of help to our system, which is based primarily on the quality and not quantity. " Mario Capanna, president of the Genetic Rights Foundation, which had formally presented the petition, said that "the vote of all parties, and will host expressed by all Italian regions, producers and consumers of the country." The approved text commits the government "to promote scientific research and strengthening public oversight and control activities to prevent contamination between GM and non-GM crops, and to check the possible presence of unauthorized genetically modified seeds." The GMO issue remains a source of fierce debate in Europe, unlike the U.S. adopts much more rigid standards. Still, GM varieties authorized in the European area are few and, except for Spain, some countries such as Germany and France, tend to reduce or ban their cultivation, as has happened with a maize in Germany, France, Hungary, Greece, Luxembourg, Austria and Bulgaria. The Czech Republic, second European country after Spain, grown under a thousand acres. biodiversidadla.org/Principal/Secciones/Noticias/El_Senado_italiano_aprueba_por_unanimidad_prohibir_el_cultivo_de_transgenicos
Posted on: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:36:06 +0000
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