§ Joan RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether, for future growings of Chardon LL to take place in the 615W UK, (a) farmers and (b) Bayer CropScience will be obliged to replicate not only herbicide use but also the herbicide concentrations, management practices and other parameters following the farm scale GM maize trials. [164975]
§ Mr. MorleyChardon LL is a variety of GM maize carrying the GM event T25 from Bayer CropScience. In March the company announced that it was not proceeding with commercialisation of this variety in Europe, so it will not be grown in the UK.
§ Joan RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the variations are in the conditions to the Part C consent for Chardon LL, which she has submitted for consideration by the French competent authority. [164976]
§ Mr. MorleyChardon LL is a variety of GM maize carrying the GM event T25 from Bayer CropScience, which was granted a consent in 1998 under part C of Directive 90/220 by the relevant French competent authority on behalf of all EU member states.
On 9 March 2004, officials wrote to the French Competent Authority seeking amendments to this consent to limit herbicide use with the crop in line with advice from the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment. A copy of the letter to the French Competent Authority has been published on the Defra website and placed on the GM public register.