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To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what genetically-modified seeds he plans to add to the National Seed List; and if he will make a statement. - Including ref to Directive 90/220/EEC and Novel Foods Regulation, No 258/97/EEC. (Holding answer 7 March 2000).
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what genetically-modified seeds he plans to add to the National Seed List; and if he will make a statement. - Including ref to Directive 90/220/EEC and Novel Foods Regulation, No 258/97/EEC. (Holding answer 7 March 2000).
Asked by
Desmond Swayne
(Conservative)
Answered by
Baroness Quin
(Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
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Written questions
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Answered
Tabled on
22 February 2000
For answer on
13 March 2000
Answered on
13 March 2000
Mr. Swayne: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what genetically modified seeds he plans to add to the National
Seed List; and if he will make a statement. [111967]
Ms Quin: [holding answer 7 March 2000]:
Applications for the addition of plant varieties to the National List are considered against the requirements of the Seeds (National
Lists of Varieties) Regulations 1982 (as amended) which implement EC directives. These regulations require that varieties must be
distinct, uniform and stable (DUS) and, for agricultural species, have a value for cultivation and use (VCU) in the UK. Before
genetically modified plant varieties may be proposed for addition to the National List, Ministers also require that a marketing
consent has been promulgated under Directive 90/220/EEC on the Deliberate Release into the Environment of Genetically Modified
Organisms, and, where appropriate, authorisation has been given under the Novel Foods Regulation, No. 258/97/EEC.
Ministers are currently considering making a proposed decision about the addition to the National List of a genetically modified
forage maize variety (CHARDON LL). The variety in question has completed the normal two years of National List tests and trials, and
the trait involved has a marketing consent under Directive 90/220/EEC and an authorisation under the Novel Foods Regulation No.
258/97/EEC. As required under the National List regulations, once a proposed decision has been made by Ministers, it will be
published in the Plant Varieties and Seeds Gazette together with the procedure for making representations against such a proposed
decision.
However, the Government's recent agreement with SCIMAC (representing the seeds, farming and biotechnology industries in the UK),
precludes the general commercialisation of GM maize until 2003 at the earliest, subject to the results of the UK farm-scale
evaluation programme.
Subjects
Applications; Licensing; EU law; Genetically modified organisms; Seeds; Maize
Date
13 March 2000
Reference
346 c47-8W; 111967
House
House of Commons