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With regard to GMOs, we do not want Europe to commit itself lightly, as the United States has done, to the ill-considered and uncontrolled large-scale spread of genetically modified organisms, guided solely by the interests of the firms that produce them. Nor, however, do we want Europe to stand aside on principle from a technique that may be the source of certain hopes for feeding humanity.
Faced with a technique enabling human beings to manipulate the genome, that is to say to act upon the very core of life, it is vital that society should ask itself questions and that the necessary ethical debates should not be evaded. It is the duty of the public authorities to legislate and regulate. State sovereignty implies that states retain the power only to admit onto their territory desired and chosen products corresponding to real needs. The Cartagena Protocol on biodiversity recognises this right. Let us make full use of it in order to retain, in Europe, our expertise in the area of GMO culture. Freedom of choice for the consumer and producer also implies that the necessary measures should be taken to safeguard the co-existence of production that draws upon GMOs and production that does not."@en1
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