After three years of activities and fields studies, the AMIGA project will meet with stakeholders to disclose some significant outcomes of the project on the 30th of October at the ENEA premises in Brussels.
One year before the closure, AMIGA has reached its late stage, achieving relevant results and launching the last of the three field seasons foreseen in several European countries. The scientific activities in AMIGA consist of case studies of biosafety assessment in maize and potato, the two GM crops currently approved for cultivation in the EU, and surveys in non-GM agro-ecosystems. A cornerstone of the project is the application for laboratory and field experiments of the Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) guidelines from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which is the basis for the update of the regulatory process of GM plants in the EU.
The third Stakeholders Consultation meeting, only open to invited attendees, is an occasion for the partners to share the development of the AMIGA project and discuss the field trials set up in 2014, with representatives from EFSA, European institutions, farmers associations, NGOs and national competent authorities. The meeting will be preceded by an introduction in which the project coordinator, Dr. Salvatore Arpaia, and the deputy coordinator, Dr. Antoine Messean, will give a general overview of AMIGA and will also reveal some outcomes in view of the final conference that will be held in Brussels in 2015 involving stakeholders and policy makers.