CoExtra Library - Links
Consumer Websites
EU Institutions/Networks
- EFSA: European Food Safety Authority
- ENGL: European Network of GMO Laboratories
- EUROPA: The European Union On-line
- European Commission - Agriculture
- European Commission - Environment
- European Commission - Food safety
- European Commission - Joint Research Center (JRC)
- European Commission - Research, Development, Technology and Innovation
EU Regulations
- COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION 2003/556/EC of 23 July 2003 on guidelines for the development of national strategies and best practices to ensure the coexistence of genetically modified crops with conventional and organic farming (OJ L 189, 29.07.2003, p.36)
- COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 65/2004 of 14 January 2004 establishing a system for the development and assignment of unique identifiers for genetically modified organisms (OJ L 10, 16.1.2004, p. 5)
- DIRECTIVE 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 March 2001 on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms and repealing Council Directive 90/220/EEC (OJ L 106, 17.4.2001, p. 1)
- REGULATION (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety (OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1)
- REGULATION (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003 on genetically modified food and feed (OJ L 268, 18.10.2003, p.1)
- REGULATION (EC) No 1830/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003 concerning the traceability and labelling of genetically modified organisms and the traceability of food and feed products produced from genetically modified organisms and amending Directive 2001/18/EC (OJ L 268, 18.10.2003, p. 24)
- REGULATION (EC) No 1946/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 July 2003 on transboundary movements of genetically modified organisms (OJ L 287, 5.11.2003, p.1)
EU Research Programmes
- ALCUEFOOD - From European fork to Latin American farm
- CO-EXTRA: GM and non-GM supply chains: their CO-EXistence and TRAceability
- DNA-TRACK: Traceability of DNA fragments throughout the food chain by DNA/PNA technologies. Application to Novel Foods.
- ENTRANSFOOD: European network on safety assessment of genetically modified food crops.
- FLAIR-FLOW: Dissemination of information from food R&D and nutrition projects funded by the European Union.
- FOODTRACE: Traceability throughout the Food Supply Chains.
- GMO Compass website
- GMOCARE: New methodologies for assessing the potential of unintended effects in genetically modified food crops.
- GMOCHIPS: Development of biochips to detect Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in food.
- Invitation Letter from the Coordinator of Co-Extra, Yves Bertheau, which includes a draft addressing the organisation and functions of the task force
- OLIV-TRACK: Traceability of origin and authenticity of olive oil by combined genomic and metabolomic approaches.
- PETER - Promoting European Traceability Excellence and Research
- QPCRGMOFOOD: Reliable, standardised, specific, quantitative detection of genetically modified food.
- SEAFOODPLUS: Health promoting, safe seafood of high eating quality in a consumer driven fork-to-farm concept.
- SIGMEA: EU research programme on ecological and socio-economic impacts of GM crops
- TRACE: Delivering Integrated Traceability Systems that will enhance Consumer Confidence in the Authenticity of Food.
- TRACEFISH: Traceability of Fish Products.
- TRANSCONTAINER: Developing efficient and stable biological containment systems for genetically modified plants.
- Transcontainer: Developing efficient and stable biological containment systems for genetically modified plants
European Commission and Authorities
General Information on Plant Biotechnology and Biosafety Research
International Organisations
- A SEED Europe
- FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization)
- ICGEB - The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
- OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) - Biotrack Online
- United Nations - The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
- United Nations - World Food Programme
- WTO (World Trade Organization)
- World Health Organization - Food Safety
Internet Resources
- AgBios database: Database on GM crops with complete descriptions for approved crops.
- AgBiotechNet: Agricultural biotechnology information resources.
- BINAS DTree: Decision Support System for Safety Assessment of Genetically Modified Crop Plants.
- Conference website (online submissions)
- GMO-Watch: Provides resources for the regulatory management of GMO food, in particular for the detection and tracing of GMO food.
- ISAAA: International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications.
- NCBI GenBank: Sequence-database of the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
National authorities
- Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
- Croatian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management
- Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
- Dutch report (Detectie van niet-toegelaten genetisch gemodificeerde organismen, Stoffen Expertise Centrum, RIVM, 2007)
- Finnish Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry
- French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
- German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (EN)
- Greek Ministry of Rural Development and Food
- Italian Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry
- Letter from the Ministry of Agriculture (Dutch)
- Slovenian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Food
- Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and Food
- UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Other Associations
- EBSA - European Biosafety Association
- EFB - European Federation of Biotechnology
- EUROPABIO - The European Association for Bioindustries
Other miscellaneous links
- Background information
- Co-Extra: Biological approaches to preventing gene flow
- Conclusion Document on Co-Extra's Workshop on Reference systems (23/01/2008, Brussels)
- Conference website
- FDA: Genetically Engineered Animals
- Présentation de Co-Extra dans RTD Info, le magazine de la recherche européenne (Déc. 2005)
- Presentation of Co-Extra in RTD Info, the Magazine on European Research (Dec. 2005)
- Report "Maintaining product integrity in the Australian seed and grain supply chain – the role of sampling and testing for GM events"
- SIGMEA, Transcontainer, Co-Extra - 3 EC research programmes on co-existence
- Vorstellung von Co-Extra in FTE Info, die Magazin über europäische Forschung (Dez. 2005)
- Wageningen University
Relevant Documents
- Co-existence of genetically modified and conventional crops: roundtable on latest research results (EC - 24/04/2003)
- ENGL Explanatory Document on the use of “percentage of GM-DNA copy numbers in relation to target taxon specific DNA copy numbers calculated in terms of haploid genomes” as a general unit to express the percentage of GMOs
- Economic Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops on the Agri-Food Sector (EC Working Document)
Standardisation and Accreditation Bodies
- AACC: American Association of Cereal Chemists
- AFNOR: Association française de normalisation – French Association of Standardisation
- CEN: Comité européen de normalisation - European Committee of Standardisation
- COFRAC: Comité français d’accréditation - French Accreditation Committee
- Codex Alimentarius
- DIN: Deutsche Institut fur Normung – German Institute for Standards
- ISO: International Standard Organisation
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