Bernard Allen (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 498: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the implementation of the safeguard clause directive 2001/18/EC. [36325/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Article 23 of Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council specifies the conditions under which the safeguard clause, prohibiting in a national territory a GMO approved for use in the EU, may be invoked. These conditions include the emergence of new or additional information made available since the date of the consent and affecting the environmental risk assessment, or the reassessment of existing information on the basis of new or additional scientific knowledge which provide detailed grounds for considering that the product constitutes a risk to human health or the environment.

I do not consider that these conditions have been fulfilled with regard to any recent approval of a GMO product by the European Commission.