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2006-12-07 | permalink
Federal Court suspends decision about Bayer's GM maize
In the afternoon of Dec 05, the Federal Court of Curitiba (Parana, Brazil) determined the suspension of "any deliberation regarding the administrative process 12000.005154/1998-36, until the Federal Government makes any statement”. The referred process is related to the commercial release of Bayer's herbicide-tolerant maize, genetically modified to tolerate gluphosinate. The civil court case was proposed by the NGOs Terra de Direitos, AS PTA and IDEC (Consumer's Protection Institute), because CTNBio (National Technical Comission on Biosafety) denied - without justifying its decision - to carry out a Public Hearing, granted by the law and resquested by the same NGOs in October 18, 2006. The National Association of Small Farmers (ANPA) - which gathers more than 80,000 farmers all over the country - had also requested the Public Hearing at the time.
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2006-12-07 | permalink
Federal Court suspends decision about Bayer's GM maize
In the afternoon of Dec 05, the Federal Court of Curitiba (Parana, Brazil) determined the suspension of "any deliberation regarding the administrative process 12000.005154/1998-36, until the Federal Government makes any statement”. The referred process is related to the commercial release of Bayer's herbicide-tolerant maize, genetically modified to tolerate gluphosinate. The civil court case was proposed by the NGOs Terra de Direitos, AS PTA and IDEC (Consumer's Protection Institute), because CTNBio (National Technical Comission on Biosafety) denied - without justifying its decision - to carry out a Public Hearing, granted by the law and resquested by the same NGOs in October 18, 2006. The National Association of Small Farmers (ANPA) - which gathers more than 80,000 farmers all over the country - had also requested the Public Hearing at the time.
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