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GMOs
France draws red lines for EU-US free trade negotiations
| 20-March-2013
Food safety, GMO cultivation and France’s cherished “cultural exception” for audiovisual services are non-negotiable areas in view of upcoming EU-US free trade talks, the French stressed. The message was apparently well received by the European Commission in Brussels.
Paris veut exclure les OGM et les services audiovisuels de l’accord de libre-échange avec Washington
| 14-March-2013
L’accord de libre-échange que l’Union européenne veut négocier avec les Etats-Unis ne doit pas porter sur la culture d’OGM ou remettre en cause l’exception culturelle, a affirmé mercredi un haut responsable français à des journalistes européens à Bruxelles. 
La législation européenne encadrant les organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM) ne changera pas, même si Bruxelles et Washington scellaient un accord de libre échange, a déclaré le commissaire européen au Commerce Karel de Gucht dans un entretien accordé au journal autrichien Die Presse. 
An EU-US free trade deal would obliterate EU safeguards for health and 
Like putting an astronaut on Mars, a US-EU bilateral transatlantic trade deal has been a long-held dream of policy makers that seemed always out of reach. Yet Brussels and Washington are edging closer to the launch pad.
Commissioner ’optimistic’ of speedy start to EU-US trade talks
| 8-November-2012
EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht has voiced optimism that negotiations for a comprehensive free trade agreement between the EU and the United States could start at the beginning of next year. 
Commentators are worried that the US may be pressuring countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) - an Asia-Pacific-wide free trade pact - to abolish the labelling of GM foods, which it regards as a trade barrier. 
After 16 years of bitter debate, it has been agreed at the international level that governments are free to decide on whether and how to label foods derived from modern biotechnology, including foods containing genetically modified organisms. 
One of WikiLeaks’ greatest achievements has been to expose the exorbitant amount of influence that multinational corporations have over Washington’s diplomacy.
Quevedo: "Trabaría TLC atrasar el ingreso de transgénicos"
| 6-May-2011
Ministro de Agricultura advierte que extender plazo generaría riesgo para los Tratados de Libre Comercio y acuerdos con Mercosur y otros bloques. 
Thai authorities are taking precautions to shield businesses and farmers from the fall in farm product prices after tariffs are cut under the Asean Free Trade Area (Afta) at the start of 2010. 
The United States has asked Sri Lanka, ranked high for software piracy in Asia, to better enforce intellectual property rights and also lift restrictions on American imports like genetically modified food. 
Malaysia is about to adopt its biosafety regulations despite pressure from the US Biotechnology Industry Organisation that called on the US trade representative to reject mandatory labelling of GM products in the US-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement, claiming that labelling is tantamount to trade barrier.
México: Rechaza INIFAP abrir campo mexicano al maíz transgénico
| 6-July-2009
Al participar en la mesa El Maíz frente al TLCAN: los Transgénicos y los Agrocombustibles, organizada por la Unidad de Investigación Economía del Sector Primario y Medio Ambiente, del Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas (IIEc), Espinosa Calderón expuso que existen alrededor de 42 transgénicos del grano liberados comercialmente en EU. "Si llegan a nuestro territorio, las razas nativas no podrán sobrevivir".
BIO position on Trans-Pacific Partnership FTA
| 8-May-2009
Position paper of the US-based Biotechnology Industry Organisation on the US negotiation of a Trans-Pacific Partnership FTA with Singapore, Chile, Brunei, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand and Peru
Exigen a Calderón dialogar con Obama sobre el tema migratorio y los transgénicos
| 8-April-2009
Legisladores y organizaciones integrantes de la campaña nacional Sin Maíz no hay País demandaron que en la próxima visita a México del presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, los días 16 y 17 de abril, además del tema de seguridad, se demande la revisión del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN), la no introducción de maíz transgénico al país y concretar la reforma migratoria pendiente.
US to push back on SPS farm trade barriers -Kirk
| 13-March-2009
The United States will make it a priority to get rid of barriers to US farm exports based on unjustified sanitary and phytosanitary concerns about human, animal and plant health — including the EU ban on GM crops — the designee for US Trade Representative said on Thursday.
Perú: Transgénicos y decretos legislativos 1059, 1060 y 1080
| 27-October-2008
Los recientes decretos legislativos abren de par en par la puerta para el ingreso sin control de los transgénicos
Normas sanitarias y fitosanitarias: ¿Una estrategia para amañar el mercado de alimentos?
| 2-July-2008
En materia de sanidad animal y vegetal, tanto Estados Unidos como la Unión Europea están tratando de imponerle sus normas a los demás países a traves de los TLC.
Sécurité sanitaire : les dés sont pipés
| 2-July-2008
Sur la scène de la sécurité sanitaire, les États-Unis comme l’UE tentent de faire adopter leurs normes par les autres pays à travers les accords bilatéraux de libre-échange. |
L’accord entre l’Union Européenne et l’Inde menace l’accès aux traitements en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient
| 12-April-2013
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