Economic and Strategic Issues
BERL Report Underscores Economic Risk of GM Release. Sustainability Council analysis of the BERL economics report, April 2003.
Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, Field Work: Weighing Up the Costs and Benefits of GM Crops. July 2003.
Australia rejects GM food production for another year. Sustainability Council Briefing, July 2003.
South Australian Parliamentary Select Committee on GMOs. Final Report. July 2003.
Western Australian Parliament Environment and Public Affairs Committee, Final Report. July 2003.
Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Water and the Environment. Gene Technology Policy Review. February 2003.
Market Resistance to GM Foods. Lessons from the US. Sustainability Council Briefing, February 2003
Economic Risks and Opportunities from the Release of Genetically Modified Organisms in New Zealand (2003). Report for Ministry for the Environment and the Treasury, Prepared by BERL and AERU.
Caroline Saunders and Selim Catagay, Lincoln University (2002) Economic Analysis of Issues Surrounding Commercial Release of
GM Food Products in NZ.
Treasury (March 28 2003) Briefing on Genetic Modification Economic Analysis. Cabinet Paper.
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Contamination and Coexistence
GM Wheat Fails Market Test. Sustainability Council Briefing, April 2003.
European Union Joint Research Centre (2002) Scenarios for co-existence of genetically modified, conventional and organic crops in European agriculture.
Canadian Wheat Board Agronomics of GM Wheat. Discussion Document.
Canadian Grain Industry Working Group on Genetically Modified Wheat (February 2003) Conditions for the Introduction of Genetically Modified Wheat. Discussion Document.
UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Monitoring Large Scale Releases of Genetically Modified Crops.
Cabinet Papers on Coexistence (2003): Paper 1: Overview.
Cabinet Papers on Coexistence (2003): Paper 2: On the practicalities of specific issues.
Cabinet Paper 2003: Conditional Release and Enforcement.
AgResearch (2001) Coexistence of genetically modified and non-genetically modified crops.
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Liability and Compensation
The New Frontier. Biotechnology Law Reform. Paper presented by the Sustainability Council to the Biotechnology Law Conference, February 2003
Who Bears the Risk? Genetic Modification and Liability. Chen Palmer and Associates and Simon Terry Associates, 2002.
Cabinet Paper (2003) Liability Issues for GM
Law Commission (May 2003) Liability for Loss Resulting from the Development, Supply, or Use of Genetically Modified Organisms
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Environmental Risk and Precaution -
Precaution and the Biosafety Protocol. Sustainability Council Backgrounder on the Precautionary Principle, 2002.
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (2001) Key lessons from the history of science and technology: knowns and unknowns, breakthroughs and cautions.
US National Research Council (2002) Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants. The Scope and Adequacy of Regulation.
Royal Society of Canada, Expert Panel on the Future of Food Biotechnology (2000) Elements of Precaution. Recommendations for the Regulation of Food Biotechnology in Canada.
AgResearch (2001) Summary of current scientific awareness of the effect of genetically modified organisms on the natural environment.
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General References
HSNO
Amendment Bill (Council version)
Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 (HSNO). Online version
Government overview of the Bill
Select Committee Homepages
Cabinet Papers
Government's response to the Royal Commission Recommendations
Royal Commission on Genetic Modification
Report
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