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AUS – SA ANNOUNCES REVIEW OF GM CANOLA MORATORIUM
28 June 2007. Source: South Australian Government
http://www.ministers.sa.gov.au/news.php?id=1804
A review of South Australia’s Genetically Modified (GM) Crops Management ACT, which prevents GM crops to be grown commercially anywhere in SA is now underway.
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Rory McEwen said the review will focus on:
- The purpose of the Act and whether there are alternative ways to prevent adverse market outcomes
- The operation of the Act
- The regulation that prohibits the cultivation of GM crops in South Australia.
“The Act gives effect to the South Australian Government’s commitment to ensure that the cultivation of GM crops is regulated in South Australia,” he said.
“It has the primary purpose of permitting the regulation of GM food crops in order to prevent adverse market outcomes that may otherwise occur from the unregulated introduction of GM food crops into the State’s agricultural production systems.”
Interested parties are encouraged to lodge submissions to the review which will all be independently assessed and a report will be prepared for the GM Crops Advisory Committee who will make recommendations to Mr McEwen.
Mr McEwen said it is important that stakeholders make the time to comment to the GM Crop Advisory Committee especially those community groups on Kangaroo Island and Eyre Peninsula who were interested in establishing GM crop free areas for marketing purposes.
Submissions must be lodged by Friday, 3 August 2007.
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