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2006-07-28 |

France: Greenpeace marks GM fields as court prohibits GM map

After a French court ruled that Greenpeace France must remove a map of GMO maize fields from its web-site, activists marked one of the fields directly with a giant crop circle around an X. The French court order is peculiar as EU directives, which have not yet been implemented in French law actually call for public registers of GM fields. In Germany detailed information on every location is provided by the state.</p><p><a href="http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2006/2006-07-27-02.asp">Fighting Secrecy Over Transgenic Crops, Greenpeace Carves a Circle</a></p><p><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/crop-circle-270706">Greenpeace international map and press release</a>