The Polish Prime Minister has said it again: "We do not want GMO on the Polish territory."

And he is not alone. There are now over 170 regions in Europe and 4,500 smaller areas that want to be GM-free.

And the following decisions and announcements, coming one on top of the other in recent weeks, are surely more than coincidence:

Austria bans Monsanto's GM oilseed rape
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=6163

Ban on growing GM soy in Romania
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=6210

Greece extends ban on Monsanto biotech corn type
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=6185

They send a clear message to the biotech industry, the US, the WTO and those European Commissioners who've been trying to do their bidding.

The French judiciary have also added their voice with recent decisions that amount, as an article in Le Monde noted, to "a recognition of the illegality of GMOs" due to the "present danger of the uncontrolled spread of GMO genes... contrary to the constitutional right to a healthy environment."

The French courts have effectively confirmed that every citizen has a right to destroy GM crops, and that government has a duty to prohibit them.
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=6153

As if that weren't enough, an international campaign against the WTO dispute called "Bite-back - WTO: Hands off our food!" - has won the support of 750 organisations representing some 60 million people (see www.bite-back.org).
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PM: We do not want GMO in Poland
http://euro.pap.net.pl/cgi-bin/europap.pl?grupa=46&dzien=0&ID=76429

07.02.2006 Warsaw (PAP) - Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz said Tuesday that work is underway on a draft law on genetically modified organisms (GMO) so that to adjust Polish legislation to the EU requirements.

"We do not want GMO on the Polish territory," the PM declared at a new conference after the cabinet sitting. We are still discussing the problem so that (law) which is to bind in Poland be concordant with the EU directives." Marcinkiewicz said.

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