Dear all,

I think it's very important that someone is involved in this New Task Force to counterbalance. ALLEA is a "scientist" organisation that lobbies the European authorities very actively, emphasising their status as scientists and therefore "objective".

However, active members of ALLEA, such as R. Puigdomenech, who also participates in this Taskforce, have significant conflicts of interest with industry. ALLEA actively supports the deregulation of new GMOs.

I refer you to the very well documented report (in which I participated) "Behind the smokescreen
Vested interests of EU scientists lobbying for GMO deregulation" published by the European Parliament Green Group in September.

https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/study/behind-the-smokescreen

Report "Behind the smokescreen. Vested interests of EU scientists lobbying for GMO deregulation"

About ALLEA page 22.

http://extranet.greens-efa.eu/public/media/file/1/7922

 A Charlotte

Dear all,

 

here more info about the ALLEA (European Academics) task force, where Christoph was asked to propose participants:

 

“ALLEA Launches New Task Force to Investigate the Intellectual Property System for New Genomic Techniques.” (5 December)

 

https://allea.org/allea-launches-new-task-force-to-investigate-the-intellectual-property-system-for-new-genomic-techniques/

 

Best,

Johanna

 

Mag. Johanna ECKHARDT

Project Coordination

Tel. +43 680 21 26 343

johanna.eckhardt@no-patents-on-seeds.org

 

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