2nd MEETING Of EUROPEAN ADVISORY COMMITTEES On BIOSAFETY in the field of the deliberate release of GMO

 
14 – 16 May 2007 Ljubljana, Slovenia

CLOSING REMARKS

• Annex I – opening speeches
• Annex II  - Novel plant breeding technologies
• Annex III – Joint session EACB – EFSA - GMO Panel

PARTICIPANTS Photo

PROGRAMME OF THE 2nd MEACB

 
EUROPEAN ADVISORY COMMITTEES ON BIOSAFETY in the field of the deliberate release of GMOs

 
ABSTRACT BOOK OF 2nd MEACB

 
JOINT SESSION OF EACB and EFSA GMO PANEL

 
2nd MEACB - PRESENTATIONS

 
14 May 2007

Novel gene technology and GMOs regulation

• Novel plant breeding technologies at the edge of the European GMO regulation (Henk J. Schouten)
• Biocontainment of Transgenic Crops with Special Reference to Trees and Biofuels (Jim M Dunwell)
• Remain – (CGB)

 
15 May 2007
GM Trees

• Biosafety aspects of GM trees (Matthias Fladung)
• Field trials with GM trees in Finland (monitoring and inspections) (Marja Ruohonen-Lehto)
• Field trials with GM trees in France and management measures recommanded by the CGB (Marc Fellous, Yvette Dattee and Anne Grevet)
• Environmental risk assessment of GM trees by using multi-attribute decision support modeling (Robert Brus and Marko Debeljak)
• Should the ecosystem or the GMO be the focus for risk assessment and monitoring? (Geoff R Squire and Marko Debeljak)

Joint session EFSA GMO panel & European Advisory Committees on Biosafety

• Environmental Risk Assessment carried out by EFSA (Gerd Neemann)
• Effect of GM plants on “non-target” organisms (Salvatore Arpaia)
• Long-term effects of GM plants (Detlef Bartsch)
• Impacts on cultivation, management & harvesting techniques (Jeremy Sweet)
• Receiving environment...Baseline (József Kiss)
• Landscape Descriptors & Modelling (Joe Perry)
• GM stacked events (Joaquim Schiemann)
• EFSA Collaboration with the Member States (Karine Lheureux)
• Update on MON863 (Claudia Paoletti)

 
16 May 2007

• Introductory comments on GM Biofuels (Androula Gilliland) <//strong>