Greenpeace Welcomes the Ratification of the Biosafety Protocol by Spain

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Greenpeace Welcomes the Ratificiaton of the Biosafety Protocol by Spain JoAnn

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Greenpeace welcomes the ratification of the Biosafety Protocol by Spain

 

Madrid, Spain, 25 January 2002: Greenpeace learnt today that the Spanish

government ratified the Biosafety Protocol (or Cartagena Protocol) on 16

January 2002, and welcomes this step.

 

Spain is the second European country to ratify the protocol, an

agreement which is designed to regulate the international trade,

handling and uses of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The

Netherlands ratified it on 6 January 2002.

 

Eleven countries have now ratified it but 39 additional countries have

to do so before it enters into force because the protocol will come into

force as a legally binding international agreement only after 50

countries have ratified it.

 

The precautionary principle is at the heart of this agreement. This

means that countries have the right to ban or restrict the import and

use of genetically engineered organisms when there is a lack of

scientific knowledge or consensus regarding their safety.

 

http://archive.greenpeace.org/~geneng/index.html

 

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