To be grown commercially GM crops need EU 'Part C' marketing consent. Chardon LL already has this, granted in 1998 before the five-year' GM moratorium was imposed. Consent expires in October 2006. However; Defra Secretary Margaret Beckett moved the goalposts last week by imposing conditions on the commercialisation of the crop. She wants EU marketing consent conditions to be altered so GM maize can only be grown and managed as it was in the Farm-Scale Evaluations (FSEs), or under conditions that will not harm the environment.
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