❓ A WA parliamentary question addresses concerns about the impact of GM canola trials on non-GM export guarantees and the potential burden on non-GM growers, following the approval of Bayer CropScience InVigor canola.
AnsweredQoN 1316Legislative Council
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When the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator recently approved the commercial release of Bayer CropScience InVigor canola, the Australian Gene Technology Regulator, Dr Sue Meek said - The Australian public can be assured that rigorous independent assessment of potential health, safety and environmental impacts has found InVigor® canola as safe to humans and the environment as conventional (non-GM) canola. This implies that trial crops will be grown under substantial equivalence - the same as other crops - rather than the precautionary principle, requiring the GM industry to keep the GM product contained. (1) If export grain markets require a guarantee of non-GM status, will the OGTR be able to continue to issue this non-GM guarantee to quarantine when proposed trials are grown? (2) If no to (1), who will issue these certificates? (3) Can trials influence this guarantee at a later date? (4) Will it be a requirement for non-GM growers to have a traceable and able to be audited identity preservation system - valued at 10 to 20 per cent gross product value of canola - and/or rigorous testing regime to prove a non-GM status if GM trials are grown during the moratorium? Hon KIM CHANCE
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I thank Hon Dee Margetts for the considerable notice she has provided of this question. The answer was also made available some considerable time ago, so the answer is accurate as at Friday, 19 September. (1) I have been advised that the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator will continue to provide statements to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service verifying that there has been no commercial release of GM crops, with the exception of GM canola. In relation to GM canola, I have informed the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Hon Warren Truss, of my concerns that the OGTR would cease to verify the GM status - I think that should be the non-GM status - of Western Australia’s canola exports, given that there is no commercial production in this State and the Government’s position on field trials is that they must be still managed according to OGTR licence conditions. I am currently awaiting his advice on the matter. That part of the answer could be dated because of the age of the question. (2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
(1) If export grain markets require a guarantee of non-GM status, will the OGTR be able to continue to issue this non-GM guarantee to quarantine when proposed trials are grown? (2) If no to (1), who will issue these certificates? (3) Can trials influence this guarantee at a later date? (4) Will it be a requirement for non-GM growers to have a traceable and able to be audited identity preservation system - valued at 10 to 20 per cent gross product value of canola - and/or rigorous testing regime to prove a non-GM status if GM trials are grown during the moratorium? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank Hon Dee Margetts for the considerable notice she has provided of this question. The answer was also made available some considerable time ago, so the answer is accurate as at Friday, 19 September. (1) I have been advised that the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator will continue to provide statements to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service verifying that there has been no commercial release of GM crops, with the exception of GM canola. In relation to GM canola, I have informed the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Hon Warren Truss, of my concerns that the OGTR would cease to verify the GM status - I think that should be the non-GM status - of Western Australia’s canola exports, given that there is no commercial production in this State and the Government’s position on field trials is that they must be still managed according to OGTR licence conditions. I am currently awaiting his advice on the matter. That part of the answer could be dated because of the age of the question. (2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
(2) If no to (1), who will issue these certificates? (3) Can trials influence this guarantee at a later date? (4) Will it be a requirement for non-GM growers to have a traceable and able to be audited identity preservation system - valued at 10 to 20 per cent gross product value of canola - and/or rigorous testing regime to prove a non-GM status if GM trials are grown during the moratorium? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank Hon Dee Margetts for the considerable notice she has provided of this question. The answer was also made available some considerable time ago, so the answer is accurate as at Friday, 19 September. (1) I have been advised that the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator will continue to provide statements to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service verifying that there has been no commercial release of GM crops, with the exception of GM canola. In relation to GM canola, I have informed the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Hon Warren Truss, of my concerns that the OGTR would cease to verify the GM status - I think that should be the non-GM status - of Western Australia’s canola exports, given that there is no commercial production in this State and the Government’s position on field trials is that they must be still managed according to OGTR licence conditions. I am currently awaiting his advice on the matter. That part of the answer could be dated because of the age of the question. (2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
(3) Can trials influence this guarantee at a later date? (4) Will it be a requirement for non-GM growers to have a traceable and able to be audited identity preservation system - valued at 10 to 20 per cent gross product value of canola - and/or rigorous testing regime to prove a non-GM status if GM trials are grown during the moratorium? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank Hon Dee Margetts for the considerable notice she has provided of this question. The answer was also made available some considerable time ago, so the answer is accurate as at Friday, 19 September. (1) I have been advised that the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator will continue to provide statements to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service verifying that there has been no commercial release of GM crops, with the exception of GM canola. In relation to GM canola, I have informed the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Hon Warren Truss, of my concerns that the OGTR would cease to verify the GM status - I think that should be the non-GM status - of Western Australia’s canola exports, given that there is no commercial production in this State and the Government’s position on field trials is that they must be still managed according to OGTR licence conditions. I am currently awaiting his advice on the matter. That part of the answer could be dated because of the age of the question. (2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
(4) Will it be a requirement for non-GM growers to have a traceable and able to be audited identity preservation system - valued at 10 to 20 per cent gross product value of canola - and/or rigorous testing regime to prove a non-GM status if GM trials are grown during the moratorium? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank Hon Dee Margetts for the considerable notice she has provided of this question. The answer was also made available some considerable time ago, so the answer is accurate as at Friday, 19 September. (1) I have been advised that the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator will continue to provide statements to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service verifying that there has been no commercial release of GM crops, with the exception of GM canola. In relation to GM canola, I have informed the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Hon Warren Truss, of my concerns that the OGTR would cease to verify the GM status - I think that should be the non-GM status - of Western Australia’s canola exports, given that there is no commercial production in this State and the Government’s position on field trials is that they must be still managed according to OGTR licence conditions. I am currently awaiting his advice on the matter. That part of the answer could be dated because of the age of the question. (2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank Hon Dee Margetts for the considerable notice she has provided of this question. The answer was also made available some considerable time ago, so the answer is accurate as at Friday, 19 September. (1) I have been advised that the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator will continue to provide statements to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service verifying that there has been no commercial release of GM crops, with the exception of GM canola. In relation to GM canola, I have informed the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Hon Warren Truss, of my concerns that the OGTR would cease to verify the GM status - I think that should be the non-GM status - of Western Australia’s canola exports, given that there is no commercial production in this State and the Government’s position on field trials is that they must be still managed according to OGTR licence conditions. I am currently awaiting his advice on the matter. That part of the answer could be dated because of the age of the question. (2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
I thank Hon Dee Margetts for the considerable notice she has provided of this question. The answer was also made available some considerable time ago, so the answer is accurate as at Friday, 19 September. (1) I have been advised that the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator will continue to provide statements to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service verifying that there has been no commercial release of GM crops, with the exception of GM canola. In relation to GM canola, I have informed the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Hon Warren Truss, of my concerns that the OGTR would cease to verify the GM status - I think that should be the non-GM status - of Western Australia’s canola exports, given that there is no commercial production in this State and the Government’s position on field trials is that they must be still managed according to OGTR licence conditions. I am currently awaiting his advice on the matter. That part of the answer could be dated because of the age of the question. (2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
(1) I have been advised that the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator will continue to provide statements to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service verifying that there has been no commercial release of GM crops, with the exception of GM canola. In relation to GM canola, I have informed the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Hon Warren Truss, of my concerns that the OGTR would cease to verify the GM status - I think that should be the non-GM status - of Western Australia’s canola exports, given that there is no commercial production in this State and the Government’s position on field trials is that they must be still managed according to OGTR licence conditions. I am currently awaiting his advice on the matter. That part of the answer could be dated because of the age of the question. (2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
(2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
(3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
(4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
(1) If export grain markets require a guarantee of non-GM status, will the OGTR be able to continue to issue this non-GM guarantee to quarantine when proposed trials are grown? (2) If no to (1), who will issue these certificates? (3) Can trials influence this guarantee at a later date? (4) Will it be a requirement for non-GM growers to have a traceable and able to be audited identity preservation system - valued at 10 to 20 per cent gross product value of canola - and/or rigorous testing regime to prove a non-GM status if GM trials are grown during the moratorium? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank Hon Dee Margetts for the considerable notice she has provided of this question. The answer was also made available some considerable time ago, so the answer is accurate as at Friday, 19 September. (1) I have been advised that the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator will continue to provide statements to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service verifying that there has been no commercial release of GM crops, with the exception of GM canola. In relation to GM canola, I have informed the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Hon Warren Truss, of my concerns that the OGTR would cease to verify the GM status - I think that should be the non-GM status - of Western Australia’s canola exports, given that there is no commercial production in this State and the Government’s position on field trials is that they must be still managed according to OGTR licence conditions. I am currently awaiting his advice on the matter. That part of the answer could be dated because of the age of the question. (2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
(2) If no to (1), who will issue these certificates? (3) Can trials influence this guarantee at a later date? (4) Will it be a requirement for non-GM growers to have a traceable and able to be audited identity preservation system - valued at 10 to 20 per cent gross product value of canola - and/or rigorous testing regime to prove a non-GM status if GM trials are grown during the moratorium? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank Hon Dee Margetts for the considerable notice she has provided of this question. The answer was also made available some considerable time ago, so the answer is accurate as at Friday, 19 September. (1) I have been advised that the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator will continue to provide statements to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service verifying that there has been no commercial release of GM crops, with the exception of GM canola. In relation to GM canola, I have informed the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Hon Warren Truss, of my concerns that the OGTR would cease to verify the GM status - I think that should be the non-GM status - of Western Australia’s canola exports, given that there is no commercial production in this State and the Government’s position on field trials is that they must be still managed according to OGTR licence conditions. I am currently awaiting his advice on the matter. That part of the answer could be dated because of the age of the question. (2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
(3) Can trials influence this guarantee at a later date? (4) Will it be a requirement for non-GM growers to have a traceable and able to be audited identity preservation system - valued at 10 to 20 per cent gross product value of canola - and/or rigorous testing regime to prove a non-GM status if GM trials are grown during the moratorium? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank Hon Dee Margetts for the considerable notice she has provided of this question. The answer was also made available some considerable time ago, so the answer is accurate as at Friday, 19 September. (1) I have been advised that the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator will continue to provide statements to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service verifying that there has been no commercial release of GM crops, with the exception of GM canola. In relation to GM canola, I have informed the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Hon Warren Truss, of my concerns that the OGTR would cease to verify the GM status - I think that should be the non-GM status - of Western Australia’s canola exports, given that there is no commercial production in this State and the Government’s position on field trials is that they must be still managed according to OGTR licence conditions. I am currently awaiting his advice on the matter. That part of the answer could be dated because of the age of the question. (2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
(4) Will it be a requirement for non-GM growers to have a traceable and able to be audited identity preservation system - valued at 10 to 20 per cent gross product value of canola - and/or rigorous testing regime to prove a non-GM status if GM trials are grown during the moratorium? Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank Hon Dee Margetts for the considerable notice she has provided of this question. The answer was also made available some considerable time ago, so the answer is accurate as at Friday, 19 September. (1) I have been advised that the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator will continue to provide statements to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service verifying that there has been no commercial release of GM crops, with the exception of GM canola. In relation to GM canola, I have informed the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Hon Warren Truss, of my concerns that the OGTR would cease to verify the GM status - I think that should be the non-GM status - of Western Australia’s canola exports, given that there is no commercial production in this State and the Government’s position on field trials is that they must be still managed according to OGTR licence conditions. I am currently awaiting his advice on the matter. That part of the answer could be dated because of the age of the question. (2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank Hon Dee Margetts for the considerable notice she has provided of this question. The answer was also made available some considerable time ago, so the answer is accurate as at Friday, 19 September. (1) I have been advised that the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator will continue to provide statements to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service verifying that there has been no commercial release of GM crops, with the exception of GM canola. In relation to GM canola, I have informed the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Hon Warren Truss, of my concerns that the OGTR would cease to verify the GM status - I think that should be the non-GM status - of Western Australia’s canola exports, given that there is no commercial production in this State and the Government’s position on field trials is that they must be still managed according to OGTR licence conditions. I am currently awaiting his advice on the matter. That part of the answer could be dated because of the age of the question. (2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
I thank Hon Dee Margetts for the considerable notice she has provided of this question. The answer was also made available some considerable time ago, so the answer is accurate as at Friday, 19 September. (1) I have been advised that the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator will continue to provide statements to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service verifying that there has been no commercial release of GM crops, with the exception of GM canola. In relation to GM canola, I have informed the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Hon Warren Truss, of my concerns that the OGTR would cease to verify the GM status - I think that should be the non-GM status - of Western Australia’s canola exports, given that there is no commercial production in this State and the Government’s position on field trials is that they must be still managed according to OGTR licence conditions. I am currently awaiting his advice on the matter. That part of the answer could be dated because of the age of the question. (2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
(1) I have been advised that the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator will continue to provide statements to the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service verifying that there has been no commercial release of GM crops, with the exception of GM canola. In relation to GM canola, I have informed the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Hon Warren Truss, of my concerns that the OGTR would cease to verify the GM status - I think that should be the non-GM status - of Western Australia’s canola exports, given that there is no commercial production in this State and the Government’s position on field trials is that they must be still managed according to OGTR licence conditions. I am currently awaiting his advice on the matter. That part of the answer could be dated because of the age of the question. (2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
(2) If a verification of the GM status of a canola shipment is requested by an importing country, the Government is prepared to confirm to AQIS that the State’s canola exports are GM free, on the basis that there is no commercial GM canola production. (3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
(3) No. The OGTR has been prepared to issue statements verifying the GM status of crops while there have been field trials of those crops. It applies stringent licence conditions to trials in order to contain gene flow and ensure that the grain concerned does not enter the supply chain. The Government is insisting on equivalent conditions for any continuing trials of Bayer’s InVigor Hybrid canola, with the Department of Agriculture undertaking the monitoring role that the OGTR has decided to cease following the commercial licensing of that variety. Trials of Monsanto Australia’s Roundup Ready canola will continue to be managed according to the OGTR’s field trial licence conditions, with OGTR monitoring. That part of the answer is again dated by the age of the question because the OGTR has now made a decision on Roundup Ready. (4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
(4) No. This is not an issue while there is no commercial release in WA, which underlines the importance of the GM Crops Free Areas Bill. For the reason outlined in the answer to (3) the Government does not believe trials of GM canola will compromise its capacity to verify the State’s canola exports as GM free.
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