Several federations arranged, which would have to be considered everything, to set up in order a meaningful and holistic cost use calculation for the green genetic engineering. The list of questions is to help the Federal Government to settle their homework. Because in the future also such socio-economic criteria are to be considered during the permission of genetically changed organisms (GVO).
This had decided end of 2008 the advice of the European Union secretaries of the environment. The Ministers asked to catch up and exchange at that time the European Union member states on until January 2010 relevant information to the socio-economic effects of the Inverkehrbringens of GVO including the socio-economic use and the socio-economic risks as well as the agronomischen lastingness. Until June 2010 is to then report the European Commission on the basis the information delivered by the member states to the European parliament and the Council of Ministers.
Happened since then - not only in Germany - little. Therefore the genetic engineering-critical federations could be arranged from Institut work and economics of the University of Bremen proposals to the collection of socio-economic factors in Germany. Came out a catalog, which queries purposefully, as for example GV-plants affect the example of a lasting development or the cultivation for the food production or the tourism in a region has which consequences. With the topic social use is queried whether GV-plants create new possibilities of employment or displacing and which concrete use these plants bring small firms at all. The catalog of criteria deals in detail with the various costs, which result to the genetic engineering-free agriculture and the food manufacturers from the necessary protection devices against impurities and the analyses. Also the costs of cases of contamination like the gene rice scandal would have to be included into such a calculation. Listed such costs in the spring 2009 the federation ecological food economy in its to damage report genetic engineering.
Economical effects and social risks taken into consideration, then could harm the wide cultivation of genetically changed plants humans and the economy more than use, says Olaf Tschimpke, president of the nature protection federation Germany (NABU). The consequences of the genetic engineering employment were faded out to a large extent in Germany and most European Union countries.