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| EU identification number | B/BE/00/VWSP9 |
| Institution/Company | Aventis CropScience |
| Year of release | 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 |
| Title of project | Seed production trials with Brassica napus hybridparental lines and hybrids 5 year program. Field trials with geneticallymodified oilseed rape in the context of an official variety registration. |
| Organism Common Name | Oilseed rape |
| Organism Scientific Name | Brassica napus |
| Kingdom | plant |
| Trait | male sterility, fertility restorer, glufosinaat-R |
| Total surface | spring: 518.740 m2 / winter: to be defined |
| Period of release | Spring oilseed rape: April-October Winter oilseedrape: August-September |
| Number of sites | spring 2000: 26 / winter 2000: to be defined |
| Locations | In spring 2000: Bellem, Waregem, Kruishoutem,Oudenaarde, Melden Meersen, Wortegem-Petegem, Kruishoutem, Waarschoot,Knokke-Heist, Maldegem, Ursel, Assenede, Blankenberge, Moerkerke, Zuienkerke,Watervliet, Lapscheure, Bassevelde, Sint-Kruis, Sint-Laureins, Oosteeklo,St-Truiden, Deinze In winter 2000: to be defined |
| Containment measures | According to the Belgian protocol for Brassicaceae(valid for the year 2000). The plot has to be free of seed drill. Isolationdistance of 1000 m to neighbouring commercial Brassica fields. Non harvestedoilseed rape will be destructed. Post-harvest germed seedlings will bedestructed. |
| Monitoring | A year after experimentation the cultivationof Brassicaca will be forbidden and the field will be followed as longas regrowths are observable: destruction of volunteers and wild relatives. |
| Remarks | Permission for a subtrial (cultivation of winteroilseed rape on a total surface of 166.355 m2). This permission is alsovalid for the wintertrial of B/BE/VWSP10. |
| Type of procedure | Simplified procedure (first year) - Art. 9§3of Royal Decision |
| Advisory Body | Biosafety Advisory Council |
| Advice | Positive |
| Competent Authority | Minister of Agriculture |
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