Czech Republic: Biotechnology. Moving Ahead, Slowly But Surely 2008. GAIN Report Number EZ8007

摘要

The Czech Republic belongs to a limited number of countries in Europe with a pragmatic and scientific based approach to agricultural biotechnology. The Czech government, including its Ministry of Environment, works hard to provide objective, factually based information to its consumers. What is remarkable is how much this approach is a benefit to that country, allowing its officials to focus time, energy, and money, on legitimate priorities such as climate change, water and air quality, and biodiversity. This open scientific approach makes the Czech Republic an attractive potential investment by biotechnology companies for vaccine and agricultural development. This year after the French governments ban on growing GM crops, the Czech Republic became the second largest grower of Bt corn in the EU. If other biotech varieties were EU approved they would be planted in the Czech republic. The Czech's do not plan to focus on biotechnology in their EU presidency from Jan. 1.