URGENT: Minister Mary Coughlan's vote
on GMOs tomorrow
by Vercingetorix Sun May 21, 2006
09:11 In connection with the URGENT
"
lobby Minister Mary Coughlan" request below, anyone not already aware
may wish to know that under
Article 6 (PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN DECISIONS ON
SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES) of the
Aarhus Convention Agreement, point number
"
11" reads as follows:
"Each Party shall, within the
framework of its national law, apply, to the extent feasible and appropriate,
provisions of this article to decisions on whether to permit the deliberate
release of genetically modified organisms into the
environment." As can be seen at the following
United
Nations address, the vast majority of countries in Europe have already
ratified the Aarhus Convention Agreement:
http://www.unece.org/env/pp/ctreaty.htm As can
also be seen at the above address, the "
European Community" itself
ratified the Aarhus Convention Agreement on February 17th 2005.
The
Republic of Ireland's present position on the Aarhus Convention Agreement
seems to be as follows: "
I will have to check ..." (Prime Minister
Ahern TD in Dail Eireann on February 2nd 2005). For additional information on
this comment please see:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74361?comment_limit=0&condense_comments=false#comment147142 The
full text of the United Nations Aarhus Convention Agreement can be seen
at:http://www.unece.org/env/pp/documents/cep43e.pdf Vercingetorix.
http://www.constitutionofireland.com/ ============================================
Brendan
Kelly wrote:
To:
From: "Brendan Kelly"
Date: Fri, 19 May
2006 17:09:27 +0100
Subject: [nature-irl] Fw: URGENT: Mary Coughlan's vote on
GMOs on Monday
Hi Guys this is an important lobbying process re
GMOs. A quick email is all that's required!!!
Kind
regards
M.
----- Original Message
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From: GM-free Ireland Network
To: A GMFI-MEMB-ORGS
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 1:35 AM
Subject: URGENT: Mary Coughlan's vote
on GMOs on Monday
Dear friends,
Please take a minute
right now to lobby Mary Coughlan, Minister for Agriculture and Food, to vote
this Monday AGAINST an EC proposal to allow irreversible contamination of
Europe’s food and environment from GM crops.
I have just
learned from documents leaked to Friends of the Earth Europe that the EU
Agriculture Ministers will meet this Monday 22 May in Brussels to adopt measures
that will:
a.. dismiss the concerns raised by farmers,
consumers, and environmental groups at a recent stakeholder conference on GMOs
organized by the European Commission in Vienna;
a.. refuse to
establish EU-wide legislation to prevent GMO contamination of conventional and
organic crops and food;
a.. ignore the calls by 175 European
regions, 3,500 local authorities and 1,000 smaller areas in 22 EU member states
for the EC to recognise the democratic right to prohibit GM seeds and crops if
they chose to do so;
a.. not demand that liability for
contamination be made mandatory on the GM industry. Instead they will look at
existing national legislation, which is already proven
insufficient.
A flood of emails and phone calls to Mary today
Friday might just convince her not to support this dreadful attempt by the EC to
contaminate our food and farming. A protest outside the Agriculture Council
meeting in Brussels will urge her and the other Ministers to put food safety and
the environment before the interests of the transnational agri-biotech
corporations.
MARY COUGHLAN CONTACT
DETAILS:
tel: (01) 607 2884
LoCall 1890 200 510
fax: (01) 661
1013
email: minister@agriculture.gov.ie
Many thanks in
advance
Kind
regards
M.
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Spirit
of Vercingetorix ("The Man who opposed an Empire"):Related
Link:
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