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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8883

8 February 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/gmo
Twenty European “GMO-free” regions sign charter to preserve conventional and organic farming on their territory and call on European institutions to legislate on coexistence between crops

Brussels, 07/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - Twenty regions and local representatives of Europe, which are strongly opposed to the growing of genetically modified crops on their territory, signed a charter in Florence on Friday which lays the foundations for their action plan to defend the right and, effectively, the ability of EU farmers freely to choose between conventional, organic or transgenic farming. This, on behalf of biologic diversity, the principle of food sovereignty, and the right of...

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