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Consultation responses
Submissions from GM Freeze to consultations, as evidence to committees or others and comments on discussion papers are listed below. This is also the archive for briefings from the Five Year Freeze campaign, which ran from which ran from 1999 - 2005. The links marked ONGOING are to original source information about consultations GM Freeze considers important to note. This is not a complete list of all ongoing consultations. This website was set up in 2011, so some links in older documents may now be broken. If you cannot find something you are looking for please contact coordinator@gmfreeze.org and we'll be happy to help.
2013
- 25 Mar 2013 Defra: Application from Rothamsted research for a variation to its consent for a trial of genetically modified wheat
- 20 Mar 2013 Defra: Future of Farming - Call for Views
- 01 Mar 2013 FSA: Consultation on harmonisation of GM-free labelling in the EU
- 28 Jan 2013 Defra: Consultation on implementations of the EU regulation on the provision of food information to consumers
- 11 Jan 2013 FDA: Consultation on GM salmon
2012
- 27 Dec 2012 EFSA: Consultation on plant protection and field water
- 29 Nov 2012 WHO: Consultation on GM mosquitoes
- 06 Nov 2012 BIS consult on “Shaping a UK Agri-tech Strategy”
- 03 Sep 2012 DG Health and Consumers: Measures on animal cloning for food production in the EU
- 31 Aug 2012 EFSA: Public consultation on the Draft Guidance Document on the environmental risk assessment of genetically modified animals
- 29 Feb 2012 Response on Justice Committee on FOI Act
2011
- 31 Aug 2011 EFSA: Comments on the approach proposed for the food safety risk assessment of GM animals
- 17 Aug 2011 Defra: Objection to GM wheat application Rothamsted Research reference number 11/R8/01
- 15 Apr 2011 Defra: Consultation on environmental risk assessment (ERA) of GMOs
- 29 Mar 2011 Environmental Audit Committee: Inquiry into sustainable food
- 25 Mar 2011 GM Crops, Weed Resistance and Yield: Additional evidence to the House of Lords Inquiry into innovation in EU agriculture
- 28 Feb 2011 FSA: Consultation on the application of the Novel Foods Regulations in relation to cloned pigs and cows and their descendents
2010
- 30 Nov 2010 Defra: Consultation on European Commission's "technical solution" to the low-level presence of unauthorised GMOs
- 01 Sep 2010 Defra: Consultation on Commission proposals on the freedom for Member States to decide on the cultivation of GM crops
- 30 Apr 2010 EFSA: Consultation on risk assessment of GM plants
- 30 Apr 2010 EFSA: Consultation on potential impacts on non-target organisms of GM crops
2009
- 30 Sep 2009 Welsh Assembly Government: Consultation on proposals for managing the coexistence of GM, conventional and organic crops in Wales
- 31 Jul 2009 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC): Consultation on future directions in research relating to food security
2008
- 31 Oct 2008 Royal Society: Study of biological approaches to the enhancement of food crop production
- 30 Sep 2008 Defra: Consultation on esuring the UK’s food security in a changing world
- 22 May 2008 Environmental Liability Directive: Consultation on draft regulations and guidance implementing Directive 2004/35 on environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying environmental damage from GMOs
- 31 Mar 2008 FSA: Consultation on draft Chinese rice products (restriction on first placing on the market)
- 29 Feb 2008 EFSA: Consultation on draft Scientific opinion on food safety, animal health and welfare and environmental impact of animals derived from cloning by somatic cell nucleus transfer and their offspring and products obtained from those animals
- 20 Feb 2008 Defra: Application 07/R31/01 from University for Part B Consent to release GM potatoes near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire
- 04 Feb 2008 Cabinet Office Strategy Unit Food Project: Comments on discussion paper food - an analysis of the issues
2007
- 19 Nov 2007 FSA: Review of FSA handling of GM contamination of US rice
- 30 Sep 2007 Cabinet Office: Consultation on effective consultation - asking the right questions, asking the right people, listening to the answers
- 30 Sep 2007 FSA: Consultation on the guidance note for sampling food and feed to determine the presence of GM material
- 30 Apr 2007 Department of the Environment Nothern Ireland: Consultation on proposals for managing the coexistence of GM, conventional and organic crops
- 31 Mar 2007 Defra: Consultation on action to be taken against Diabrotica virgifera (Western corn root worm)
- 28 Feb 2007 Welsh Assembly Government: Environmental Liability Directive - consultation on options for implementation
- 28 Feb 2007 Defra: Consultation on options for implementing the Environmental Liability Directive
2006
- 31 Oct 2006 Defra: Consultation on proposals for managing the coexistence of GM, conventional and organic crops
- 30 Jun 2006 Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE): Consultation on managing the footprint of agriculture - towards comparative assessment of risks and benefits for novel agriculural systems
- 31 May 2006 FSA: Public consultation on priorities for local authorities
- 10 May 2006 FSA: Public consultation on labelling competitiveness, consumer information and better regulation