virus resistance (rhizomania virus: beet necrotic yellow vein virus, BNYVV), herbicide tolerance (glufosinate and bialaphos)
The trial needs to be carried out in accordance with the Belgian protocol for growing GM sugar beet valid for the year 2002. According to this protocol only root production is allowed under these conditions, seed production can only be carried out under physical containment conditions (greenhouse or pollen-free cages). Sugar beet is only tested during the vegetative stage. No flowering is allowed. The protocol also requests a border of ryegrass or naked soil of 5 m. If harvest or destruction of the trial is planned after the start of the sugar beet dig up campaign an additional isolation distance of 25 m to neighbouring sugar beet crops needs to be applied. The isolation distance has to be krpt in place until harvest. Bolters and volunteer plants will be destroyed, the vegetative material by chopping and incorporation in the soil. The seeds shall be packed in sealed boxes or packages of a colour distinctly different from that of other packages. The seeds will be transported in close vehicles. The sowing machine shall be emptied on the test field.
After the trial the fields will be followed up during 2 years. The first year after cultivation of sugar beet only a cereal can be cultivated. The second year all crops except plants of the Beta genus are allowed. Bolters and volunteer plants will be destroyed. A post-release treatment will destroy any left-over plant material.
Authorization procedure completed. The notifier was granted authorization from the Federal Minister to perform the trial.
In 2001 the same trial was carried out in France under the release permit B/FR/01/02/02. All the operations conducted during the trial will be recorded in a logbook, according to the protocol for growing GM sugar beet.
Information for the public
B/BE/02/V3 - Public information sheet (written by the notifier) Information related to the decision procedure
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29 March 2002: The Minister for Environment and Agriculture of the Flemish Region supports the advice of the Biosafety Advisory Council a.i.
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2 May 2002: The Federal Minister gives a final decision (positive with conditions) for this field trial.
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18 March 2002: The Biosafety Advisory Council a.i. issues a positive advice (with conditions) for this field trial.
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In April 2002, Ms Aelvoet, Federal Minister of Consumer Protection, Public Health and Environment, send to the Service of Biosafety and Biotechnology (SBB) a list of questions related to the risk assessment of several requests for field trials, i.e. dossiers B/BE/02/V1, B/BE/02/V3, B/BE/02/VW4, B/BE/02/V5 and B/BE/02/BWSP6.
Guidelines
Other useful information
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Dossier B/FR/03/01/02: Validation d’un concept de résistance à long terme au virus de la rhizomanie (le virus des nervures jaunes et nécrotiques de la betterave, BNYVV): expérimentation en plein champ de betteraves sucrière modifiées génétiquement pour résister à la rhizomanie. Prolongation pour la période 2003-2006 du programme expérimental initié en France en 2001 (dossier B/FR/01/02/02)
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Request for field trial in France. "Validation of a concept of long-term resistance to the rhizomania virus (BNYVV): Field evaluation of sugar beet hybrids genetically modified to be resistant to BNYVV" (experimental programme: 2003-2006)
Summary Notification for field trial B/FR/03/01/02