Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-04-10-Speech-4-078"

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dcterms:Date	"2003-04-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030410.4.4-078"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-04-10-Speech-4-0792
lpv:speaker	lp:Ilda Figueiredo2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2002-03-06--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Comunista Português (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Gulf (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". The Commission is now launching this debate, belatedly and not in full public view, when it has already given into pressure by the biotechnology multinationals to lift the moratorium on GMOs. Furthermore, the way in which it is addressing this so-called ‘coexistence’ between the two forms of crop owes more to economic factors than to anything else. This contamination is uncontrollable. Look at the experience of the USA or Canada and of the countries that are obliged to introduce GMOs, through food aid, making States’ food policies and farmers dependent on the huge food-producing multinationals. This report addresses the issue of seeds, which underpin all agricultural production. Their contamination involves upstream contamination, thereby eventually preventing any mix of organic and conventional farming. This report represents ‘the lesser evil’, given that the rapporteur’s amendments are concerned with the contamination of seeds by GMOs and with setting the minimum technically detectible quantity as a threshold for the adventitious presence of GMOs. Although this is a step backwards, it is a way of facing up to the pressures of the multinationals and to the Commission’s attempts to increase these thresholds, which would make the presence of GMOs more widespread, which would be incompatible with the precautionary principle and with ensuring that consumers have food that is genuinely ‘free’ of GMOs."@en1

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