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6 Amendments of Anja WEISGERBER related to 2008/2306(INI)

Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the need to increase transparency at European level and national level, especially with regardi to streng thening environmental impact assessments and including socio- economic and health dimensions, in order to improve citizens' confidence in the authorisation procedure;
2009/01/30
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need for further harmonstandardisation of practices and methods of assessing the environmental risks of GMOs, especially as, under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, the environmental evaluationrisk assessment is not centralised but delegated by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to a Member State;
2009/01/30
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers that in the long term the environmental risk assessment should no longer be delegated to individual Member States, but should be taken over by the EFSA itself, on the basis of its own scientific expertise;
2009/01/30
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading after paragraph 23
GMO-free zonesZones free of GMO cultivation
2009/01/30
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Stresses that, in addition to those possibilities, regions in the Member States must be allowed the right to prohibit completelydecide for themselves about the cultivation of GMOs in restricted geographical areas, for instance in sites belonging to the Natura 2000 network; this is also based on the subsidiarity principle;
2009/01/30
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Invites the Commission and Member States to clarify the legal definition of GMO-free zoneszones free of GMO cultivation;
2009/01/30
Committee: ENVI