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systems, through the manipulation ofseed by corporations. And we are enraged by the emotional blackmail of vulnerable people in need, being used in this way. We will stand together in preventing our continent from being contaminated by genetically engineered crops, as a responsibility to our f tture generation. " THESE COUNTRIES HAVE BANNED GMO FOODS AND CROPS: The precedent for national GMO bans was first set in 1997. Just within the European Union, more than 35 countries, representing more than 3 billion consumers have banned or highly restricted GMO foods and crops. Some surveys show more than 70 percent of Europeans are against biotech food. Between 1997 and 2000, five EU countries banned specific GMOs on their territory, focusing on three maize and two rapeseed types that were approved shortly before the start of the EU's six year moratorium on new biotech authorizations. Today, the European Network of GMO-&ee Regions includes 39 regional governments and 6 EU countries. Austria Since the late 1990's Bans on three GE maize types sold by Novartis, Monsanto and AgrEvo, including MON810 and T25 produced by Monsanto and Bayer. The Federal hrstitute for Less-Favoured and Mountainous Areas is pressing for GM free legislation and published a study on GE-see zones, initiatives in the States of Vorarlberg and Salzburg to ban GE trials. MON810 and T25, two varieties of GMO maize produced by multinational s Monsanto and Bayer. France Ban of PGS and AgEvo HR rapeseed Germany Ban ofNovarfis Bt maize. The initiative "No GE on communal land" of BLIND (Friends of the Earth Germany) launched activities in several German communities to discuss and vote on the GE-free resolutions Poland Bamted trade and plantings of genetically modified (GMO) seeds (2006). The EVs largest agricultural producer, Poland, extended its nationwide blanket ban on GMO seeds and crops with a two-year deadline announced on 22 July 2006 for biotech companies to prove that the use of GM animal feed is safe for humans, animals and the environment or face a total ban on further imports of GM feed into Poland. Hungary One of the EVs biggest grain producers, became the first country in eastern Europe to ban GMO crops or foods when it outlawed the planting of MON 810 maize seeds in January 2005. Greece Ban of AgrEvo HR rapeseed, moratorium of GE crop trials. Luxemburg Ban ofNovartisBt maize. Italy The four regions Tuscany, Molise, Lazio and Marche and around 25 provinces, cities and communes banned GE crops, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Brescia and Genoa, and the Tuscany ban was ratified by the national government. Portugal Ban ofNovmtis Bt maize. Spain The Basque Government went for a five year blanket moratorium for GMOs. The three provinces of Castilla-La Mancha and Baleares banal GE foak Andalucia declared a five year moratorium on GE crop trials and GE food. England The Church of England has refused permission for GE crop trials on 60,000 hectares of its land, dozens of local authorities supply GE free school lunches, the House of Commons barred GE foods for its catering. The vote of the Welsh Assembly to keep Wales GE flee was counteracted by the mmistry ofAgrierdtme approving a GE maize variety. The Island of Jersey tanned GE crops.