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At least 174 regions, over 4500 municipalities and other local entities and tens of thousands of farmers and food producers in Europe have declared themselves "GMO-free" expressing their commitment not to allow the use of genetically modified organisms in the agriculture and food in their territories. This website is a tool for the growing network of regional and local authorities, institutions, organisations, initiatives and enterprises who want to stay GMO-free and defend this interest at the regional, national and European levels.
GMO-free regions: August 2007Since April, a campaign started for a GMO-free Slovenia and with in 3 months 23 community have declared themselves GMO-free.
New GMO-free regions were also declared in the Basque Country.
On Earth Day, 22 April 2007, the institute for Sustainable Development (ISD) launched a nation-wide campaign to establish GMO-free areas. In less then 3 months, 23 community councils, more then 10% of all communities in Slovenia passed a declaration on not growing GMOs. Another 20 communities have such declarations on the agenda of their next meetings.
At their final plenary the participants of the GMO-Free Regions Conference 2007 adopted the following call for a World Summit on GMO-Free Diversity in Bonn (Germany), 12-16 May 2008:
The GM-free campaign in the Basque Country (Spain) currently counts 299 GM-free zones.
153 municipalities have one or the other type of declaration to be GM-free.
The latest declaration was for the vineyards belonging to the family of the Head of the Basque Government Farm Department.