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Makale Özeti:
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The cultivation of biotechnologically optimized useful plants is
growing rapidly worldwide. But in the European Union its development
is dropping. This is the result of an actual report of the non-governmental
organization "International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech
Applications" (ISAAA).1
Following its survey the area under cultivation
for trans gene plants has grown about 7% in 2009 to 134 Mill hectares.
This is nearly the area of the whole agriculture in Western Europe. More
than 14 Mill. Farmers in 25 countries used gene biotechnological
optimized seeds in 2009. For example, every second cotton fiber comes
from genetically modified organisms.2
But since 1998, in the EU no new genetically modified plant has got
an admission to commercial cultivation.3 Only the import of animal feed
derived from genetically modified plants in the EU was approved. On the
recommendations of the European Food Safety Authority to cultivation
authorizations, based on scientific opinions of EU Member States and a
specialized panel of experts with independent knowledge on genetic
* Leuphana University Lüneburg.
1
See www.bionity.com from 25.02.2010.
2
Ibid.
3
Jürgen Simon (2006), The impact of national and international debate in the
European Union on the Moratorium on the Release of GMO into the environment:
The Debate in Germany and the Moratorium, in: Journal International de Bioéthique,
International Journal of Bioethics (Hrsg. Christian Byk), Paris, pp. 95-106, about the
five years moratorium in Europe.
engineering it has not been decided since more than ten years. Between
the EU Commission and the 27 member states of the EU it always came
to a stalemate in the Council of EU Agriculture Ministers4
in which
neither for nor against an admission sufficient voices came together. So
far, the procedure intends for such an event that the decision-making
power will be delegated back to the EU Commission.
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