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2016/2919(RSP) Resolution on the draft Commission implementing decision concerning the placing on the market for cultivation of genetically modified maize Bt11 (SYN-BTØ11-1) seeds

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RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead ENVI PIETIKÄINEN Sirpa (icon: PPE PPE), BALAS Guillaume (icon: S&D S&D), STAES Bart (icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE), EVI Eleonora (icon: EFDD EFDD) HUITEMA Jan (icon: ALDE ALDE)
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
RoP 112-p2

Events

2017/03/29
   EC - Commission response to text adopted in plenary
Documents
SP(2017)67
2016/10/06
   EP - Motion for a resolution
Documents
B8-1083/2016
2016/10/06
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
Documents
Results of vote in Parliament
2016/10/06
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted by 386 votes to 190, with 35 abstentions, a resolution on the draft Commission implementing decision concerning the placing on the market for cultivation of genetically modified maize Bt11 (SYN-BTØ11-1) seeds (D046173/01).

The resolution was tabled by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Parliament expressed concern that maize Bt11 and maize 1507 could harm “non-target” species of butterflies and moths . It questioned the concept, introduced by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) of an " acceptable local mortality " of non-target lepidopteran species.

In its draft implementing decision, the Commission claimed that as regards local mortality, EFSA considered two levels of ‘acceptable’ local mortality (0.5 % and 1 %).

However, in its scientific opinion adopted on 28 May 2015 updating risk management recommendations to limit exposure of non-target lepidoptera of conservation concern in protected habitats to Bt-maize pollen, EFSA clearly stated that ‘any specific protection level used here for illustration by the EFSA GMO Panel is intended as an example only’ and that ‘any threshold applied here must, by necessity, be arbitrary and should be subject to amendment according to the protection goals in operation within the Union’.

Members highlighted the following issues:

the Commission chose a level of local mortality of below 0,5 %, providing in the Annex for arbitrary isolation distances of at least 5 metres between a maize Bt11 field and a protected habitat, despite the fact that EFSA actually clearly stated as confirmed that imposing an isolation distance of 20 metres around a protected habitat from the nearest crop of maize Bt11/MON 810 would be expected to reduce local mortality even of extremely highly sensitive non-target lepidopteran larvae to a level below 0.5 %, that distance being four times greater than that proposed by the Commission. in its scientific opinion adopted on 28 May 2015 , EFSA stated that ‘ currently, there are insufficient data available to allow Bt-related larval mortality to be put into the context of overall mortality’.

On the basis of these considerations, Parliament considered that the draft Commission implementing decision exceeds the implementing powers provided for in Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms. It also considered that the risk assessment of cultivation conducted by EFSA is incomplete and the risk management recommendations proposed by the Commission are inadequate.

Therefore, it called on the Commission to withdraw its draft implementing decision .

Documents
T8-0386/2016
2016/10/06
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2016/09/20
   EP - PIETIKÄINEN Sirpa (PPE) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
2016/09/20
   EP - BALAS Guillaume (S&D) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
2016/09/20
   EP - STAES Bart (Verts/ALE) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI
2016/09/20
   EP - EVI Eleonora (EFDD) appointed as rapporteur in ENVI

Documents

Activities

Votes

B8-1083/2016 - Résolution #

2016/10/06 Outcome: +: 386, -: 190, 0: 35
IT FR PL EL AT DE HU ES SI HR PT LV MT BE RO LU LT DK SK SE CY FI IE BG NL EE CZ GB
Total
61
63
46
18
18
80
16
45
8
9
17
6
6
18
24
6
8
9
13
15
5
10
8
14
21
3
16
47
icon: S&D S&D
159

Italy S&D

Abstain (1)

Paolo DE CASTRO
28

France S&D

12

Poland S&D

5

Greece S&D

4

Austria S&D

5

Germany S&D

22

Hungary S&D

2

Spain S&D

11

Slovenia S&D

For (1)

Tanja FAJON
1

Croatia S&D

2

Portugal S&D

5

Malta S&D

3

Belgium S&D

4

Romania S&D

12

Luxembourg S&D

For (1)

Mady DELVAUX
1

Lithuania S&D

1

Denmark S&D

3

Slovakia S&D

4

Sweden S&D

5

Cyprus S&D

2

Finland S&D

2

Ireland S&D

For (1)

Nessa CHILDERS
1

Bulgaria S&D

2

Netherlands S&D

2

Czechia S&D

3

United Kingdom S&D

17
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46

Italy GUE/NGL

3

France GUE/NGL

4

Greece GUE/NGL

6

Germany GUE/NGL

7

Spain GUE/NGL

11

Portugal GUE/NGL

4

Sweden GUE/NGL

For (1)

Malin BJÖRK
1

Cyprus GUE/NGL

2

Finland GUE/NGL

For (1)

Merja KYLLÖNEN
1

Ireland GUE/NGL

2

Netherlands GUE/NGL

3

Czechia GUE/NGL

1

United Kingdom GUE/NGL

1
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40

France Verts/ALE

4

Austria Verts/ALE

3

Germany Verts/ALE

11

Hungary Verts/ALE

2

Spain Verts/ALE

4

Slovenia Verts/ALE

For (1)

Igor ŠOLTES
1

Croatia Verts/ALE

For (1)

Davor ŠKRLEC
1

Latvia Verts/ALE

1

Belgium Verts/ALE

2

Luxembourg Verts/ALE

For (1)

Claude TURMES
1

Lithuania Verts/ALE

For (1)

Bronis ROPĖ
1

Denmark Verts/ALE

For (1)

Margrete AUKEN
1

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2

Finland Verts/ALE

For (1)

Heidi HAUTALA
1

Netherlands Verts/ALE

1

Estonia Verts/ALE

For (1)

Indrek TARAND
1

United Kingdom Verts/ALE

3
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31

Italy ENF

5

France ENF

15

Poland ENF

For (1)

Michał MARUSIK
1

Austria ENF

4

Germany ENF

For (1)

Marcus PRETZELL
1

Belgium ENF

For (1)

Gerolf ANNEMANS
1

Romania ENF

1

Netherlands ENF

3
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35

Italy EFDD

15

France EFDD

1

Poland EFDD

1

Lithuania EFDD

For (1)

Rolandas PAKSAS
1

Sweden EFDD

1

Czechia EFDD

Against (1)

Petr MACH
1

United Kingdom EFDD

15
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50

Italy ECR

1

Poland ECR

17

Greece ECR

For (1)

Notis MARIAS
1

Germany ECR

For (1)

Arne GERICKE
5

Croatia ECR

For (1)

Ruža TOMAŠIĆ
1

Latvia ECR

For (1)

Roberts ZĪLE
1

Belgium ECR

2

Romania ECR

Against (1)

Monica MACOVEI
1

Denmark ECR

2

Slovakia ECR

Against (1)

Richard SULÍK
3

Finland ECR

Against (1)

Jussi HALLA-AHO
2

Bulgaria ECR

Against (1)

Nikolay BAREKOV
2

Netherlands ECR

For (1)

Bas BELDER
1

Czechia ECR

2

United Kingdom ECR

Abstain (1)

James NICHOLSON
9
icon: NI NI
13

France NI

For (1)

Bruno GOLLNISCH

Against (1)

Aymeric CHAUPRADE
2

Poland NI

1

Greece NI

4

Germany NI

2

Hungary NI

3

United Kingdom NI

Against (1)

Diane DODDS
1
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61

France ALDE

6

Austria ALDE

Against (1)

Angelika MLINAR
1

Germany ALDE

4

Spain ALDE

7

Slovenia ALDE

For (1)

Ivo VAJGL
1

Croatia ALDE

For (1)

Ivan JAKOVČIĆ

Against (1)

Jozo RADOŠ
2

Portugal ALDE

2

Latvia ALDE

1

Belgium ALDE

6

Romania ALDE

For (1)

Mircea DIACONU

Against (1)

Norica NICOLAI
2

Luxembourg ALDE

For (1)

Charles GOERENS
1

Lithuania ALDE

Against (1)

Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS

Abstain (1)

Viktor USPASKICH
3

Denmark ALDE

2

Sweden ALDE

3

Finland ALDE

3

Ireland ALDE

For (1)

Marian HARKIN
1

Bulgaria ALDE

For (1)

Iskra MIHAYLOVA
4

Netherlands ALDE

6

Estonia ALDE

Against (1)

Urmas PAET
1

Czechia ALDE

4

United Kingdom ALDE

Against (1)

Catherine BEARDER
1
icon: PPE PPE
175

Italy PPE

9

France PPE

Abstain (2)

Alain CADEC, Tokia SAÏFI
19

Poland PPE

21

Greece PPE

3

Austria PPE

5

Germany PPE

Abstain (1)

Markus FERBER
28

Hungary PPE

Against (1)

László TŐKÉS
9

Spain PPE

12

Slovenia PPE

5

Croatia PPE

3

Portugal PPE

Abstain (1)

Carlos COELHO
6

Latvia PPE

3

Malta PPE

3

Belgium PPE

Against (1)

Tom VANDENKENDELAERE
3

Romania PPE

For (1)

Iuliu WINKLER
8

Luxembourg PPE

Against (1)

Frank ENGEL
3

Lithuania PPE

Against (1)

Algirdas SAUDARGAS
2

Denmark PPE

Against (1)

Bendt BENDTSEN
1

Slovakia PPE

6

Sweden PPE

3

Cyprus PPE

Against (1)

Lefteris CHRISTOFOROU
1

Finland PPE

1

Ireland PPE

4

Bulgaria PPE

Against (1)

Vladimir URUTCHEV
6

Netherlands PPE

5

Estonia PPE

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Tunne KELAM
1

Czechia PPE

5

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