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PROCEEDINGS
OF THE GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS
SUB-COMMITTEE
TUESDAY 16 APRIL 2002
Members present:
Mr Mark Todd, in the Chair
| Mr Colin Breed | Mr David Curry
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| Mr David Drew | Mr Michael Jack
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The Sub-committee deliberated.
Genetically Modified Organisms: Mr Patrick Holden,
Director, and Gundula Meziani, Policy Manager, Soil Association,
were examined.
Dr Roger Turner, Chairman, Mr Bob Fiddaman, National
Farmers' Union Board Representative, and Mr Daniel Pearsall, Secretary,
Supply Chain Initiative on Modified Agricultural Crops, were examined.
[Adjourned till Tuesday 23 April at five minutes
to Ten o'clock.
TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2002
Members present:
Mr Mark Todd, in the Chair
| Mr Colin Breed | Mr Austin Mitchell
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| Mr Michael Jack | Mr David Drew
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| Mr David Curry |
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The Sub-committee deliberated.
Genetically Modified Organisms: Professor Malcolm
Grant, Chairman, Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission,
was examined.
Rt Hon Michael Meacher, a Member of the House, Minister
of State (Environment), Dr Linda Smith, Head of the GM Policy
and Regulation Unit, and Mr Graham Davis, Head of the GM Crops
Policy Branch, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
were examined.
[Adjourned till Wednesday 22 May at half-past
Nine o'clock.
WEDNESDAY 22 MAY 2002
Members present:
Mr Mark Todd, in the Chair
| Mr David Curry |
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| Mr Michael Jack |
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The Sub-committee deliberated.
Draft Report [Genetically Modified Organisms],
proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.
Ordered, That the Report
be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.
Paragraphs 1 to 40 read and agreed to.
Summary read and agreed to.
Resolved, That the Report
be the First Report of the Sub-committee to the Committee.
Ordered, That the Chairman
do make the Report to the Committee.
[The Sub-committee adjourned.
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