Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Eleventh Report


3 Conclusion

41. The decision of Bayer CropScience not to press ahead with the commercial cultivation of GM maize has given the Government time to consider many of the issues of co-existence and liability in more detail. It has announced that it will launch consultations on a range of matters. We recommend that the Government begin the process of consultation soon, so that final details of a co-existence and liability regime for GM crop cultivation can be settled. To do so, the consultation exercise must focus on threshold levels and on the details of economic and environmental liability. In conducting the consultation, we urge the Government to keep in mind the recommendations made in this report. We will examine closely the way in which the consultation is conducted, specifically in relation to the way issues of damage and liability are addressed.


 
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