Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 473: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if officials from this State submitted objections to the assessment report on GT73 (details supplied) sent to the EU Commission from the Netherlands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39034/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I assume that the question relates to the assessment prepared by the Netherlands competent authority on the notification of the product concerned under Directive 2001/18/EC on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms.

The Netherlands authority, following its assessment, indicated that it was satisfied that the importation of the product for the uses specified and under the conditions required by the directive would not adversely impact on the environment or human health. The EPA, as Irish competent authority for the purposes of the directive, following consultation with the Departments of Agriculture and Food and Health and Children, Teagasc, and the GMO and novel foods sub-committee operating under the Food Safety of Ireland's scientific committee, indicated that it had no objection to the Dutch assessment.