Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-10-24-Speech-4-142"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, I agree with you that all the directives and regulations on GMOs should be part of the same framework and should not conflict with each other. Secondly, I understand that the Commission chooses the quantitative detectability techniques in order to define the adventitious presence of GMOs. That I quite understand. In fact, you sometimes even disregard the 1% adventitious presence of GMOs because – and I agree with you here – the authorisation for the circulation of a given GMO comes under a different directive, which takes into account the risks for human health and the environment. If there is no risk to human health and the environment, an authorisation is given.
However, when it comes to the directives on traceability, for some peculiar reason, you do not follow the principle of detectability which you follow for all the others. This will also create problems for the World Trade Organisation, because if you accept that the presence of 1% is not a problem for health and so on, why do you not accept that detectability should be included in all traceability directives? If GMOs are present, whether adventitious or not, that fact should be stated.
You insist on not including detectability in the traceability directives. You must abide by what you have said, namely, that all directives should be part of the same framework. I expect to hear what you have to say about the detectability issue, which is very important, even in trade."@en1
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