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Introduction What is Terminator Technology?
Definition How does it work Impacts and risks Short history
The ban-terminator activities in Germany 2005/ 2006 The transcontainer project, COP9 and possible activities
definition
Problems:
no official definition in the CBD text Different components and aims
definition
Our definition includes 4 components:
GMO Germination reduces or eliminated Sterile seeds inducible
CBD: genetic use restriction technologies (GURTs) FAO: Biotechnology-based switch mechanism to restrict the unauthorized use of genetic material
molecular
Scissors
elimination of repressor
molecular
Scissors
toxin
Promoter
toxin
short history
1998/1999 international protest against a Terminator patent from Delta and Pine De facto moratorium on the COP5 of CBD: recommendation that ..products incorporating such technology should not be approved by parties for field testing until appropiate scientific data can justify such testing Canadian Government tries to weaken the moratorium by stressing biosafety function of Terminator Technology. They try to get a case by case assessment Granada: ad-hoc working group on Art. 8j CBD accept a recommendation paper for Curitiba with case by case assessment
2000
2005
January 2006
March 2006 Curitiba: A lot of protest (over all the international Ban Terminator campaign) Result: The moratorium remains without limitation.
Ban terminator campaign: www.banterminator.org Spain : Ecologistas en Accion United Kingdom Canada Australia
The CBD moratorium remained in the COP8 CBD in Curitiba Two problems: Not legally binding Call for new scientific research on Terminator Technology in decision V/5 Nr. 23 and 25.
transcontainer- project
a EU-wide official project executed by 8 European Member States Over all: scientific institutions and universities and two private companies: SweTree Technologies AB in Sweden (researching with trees) and the DLF-Trifolium A/S in Denmark Destination crops: Canola, sugar beet, trees, aubergine and tomato Aim: To enhance the acceptance of GMO. Glasshouse-testing in Sweden an Denmark Transcontainer-workshop 2008 in Eastern Europe
Projectpartner
Plant Research International B.V., Wageningen, The Netherlands (coordinator) Drs. Kim Boutilier and Ruud de Maagd 1. 2. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ume, Sweden Prof. Ove Nilsson Research Institute for Vegetable Crops, Montanaso Lombardo, Italy Dr. Giuseppe Rotino 3. Vienna University, Campus Vienna Biocenter, Austria Prof. Alisher Touraev 4. 5. University of Milan, Italy Prof. Martin Kater
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland Prof. Philip J. Dix 6. Wageningen University, Netherlands Dr. Justus Wesseler
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Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, Berlin, Germany Dr. Detlef Bartsch 9. 10. University of Plovdiv Paisii Hilendarski, Plovdiv, Bulgaria Prof. Ivan Minkov Schenkelaars Biotechnology Consultancy, Leiden, The Netherlands Ir. Piet Schenkelaars 11. 12. SweTree Technologies AB, Ume, Sweden Dr. Magnus Hertzberg DLF-TRIFOLIUM A/S, Store Heddinge, Denmark Dr. Christian Sig Jensen
Until now nothing on the Agenda; but new attack from Canada and Australia probable Possible activities:
Take care on the Moratorium Maybe influence on the Moratorium excluding the call for scientific research Watch carefully the transcontainerproject; side-event on COP 9 ...